Articles: Find Articles on Your Topic: Where to Start
Need articles for your research project? Here's how to get them!
Printable Handout
- Finding Articles on a TopicPrintable, short version (one page) of this guide.
Tutorials
View brief video tutorials via YouTube (closed captioned):
- Find Articles in a DatabaseHow to use EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier database to find articles.
- Find Articles the Easy WayVideo tutorial from Fall 2022; covers OneSearch, plus a specialized database (PsycINFO).
Intro
Pfau Library subscribes to lots of article & journal databases, which are designed to help you find articles both scholarly and popular. Library databases include content that you can't otherwise find on the web, or can't find for free.
All of our databases are available from the Pfau Library web site, but our most popular starting points are below....
Best Starting Points
- Articles from OneSearch This link opens in a new windowFind articles from a variety of sources. Tips: Limit to "Peer-reviewed journals" if you need scholarly articles only. Limit to "Full text online" if you want articles that are immediately available.
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowGood starting point for most topics. Covers both scholarly journals and popular magazines.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAccess to a wide variety of scholarly journals, plus ebooks from university presses.
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