Finding Articles: Magazines and Journals
Use these online databases to find articles in journals and online books. Use our online catalog to look up books and the journal titles you find by searching periodical databases. Our catalog lists both the print and electronic versions of journal titles (when available).
Use these databases to search broadly across disciplines and source types:
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)A general periodical database that provides citations, abstracts, online links for articles from over 4,000 magazines and scholarly journals. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
- ProQuest Research LibrarySearches thousands of general interest magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide variety of subjects and academic disciplines. It also includes citations and abstracts to selected newspapers, television and radio programs. We subscribe to most of the periodicals indexed. Many articles are available full-text from the article citation page. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
- Articles & Full TextAnother way to find online articles and books. This powerful search engine works across many databases and pulls together a wide variety of resources. Refine your search using the categories on the left side of the search results page.
These databases search scholarly sources across disciplines:
- Google ScholarA searchable database of scholarly literature across all disciplines--articles, books, and papers--with links to the full text in many cases.
- JSTORA large collection of searchable and browseable full-text scholarly journals. Covers from the beginning of the journal (earliest is 1665) up to within two to five years of the present [the "moving wall"]. List of journals included and years covered.
Finding Out Who Cited an Article
- Google ScholarSearch for your article, then click on Google Scholar's Cited by link to view the citations to all the articles that cited it since your article's publication.
- Web of Science Core CollectionClick on the Cited Reference Search link and search for your article. Be sure to abbreviate your cited author search and use the asterisk. Enter the article title and choose Cited Title for best results.