Articles: Find Articles on Your Topic: Where to Start
Best Starting Points
- Articles from OneSearch This link opens in a new window
Find articles from a variety of sources. Tips: Limit to "Peer-Reviewed Journals" if you need scholarly articles only. Limit to "Available 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 window
Access to a wide variety of scholarly journals, images, primary resources, and ebooks from university presses.
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).
Quick Take: Using OneSearch for Peer-Reviewed Articles
The quickest way to find articles is to use OneSearch, which is the biggest, broadest search the Library offers.
Make sure you choose the scope "Articles."
Once you get some results, you can limit them Peer-Reviewed Journals (also called Scholarly or Academic Journals) by using the filters:
Most articles will be immediately online available for you as a CSUSB student. Just click through the links to retrieve the article.
Printable Handout
- Finding Articles on a TopicPrintable, short version (one page) of this guide.