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A Pollak Library Research Guide by Jie Tian, Reference Librarian

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Articles play a  predominant role in disseminating scholarly information.  Articles in general are published in newspapers, scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, and etc.  Current articles communicate the most recent research and studies in a field.  Your professor may require that you use articles from either popular or scholarly journals or both.  The Pollak Library's collection contains popular and scholarly journals, indexes/ abstracts databases, electronic journals, and full-text databases  that would be helpful to your research.
bullet Indexes & Abstracts (I&A) Databases
Provide citations to articles published in journals, magazines and newspapers.  I&A databases do not supply full-text, online articles.  

Use Journal Title List to find out if an article is in an electronic journal or a full-text database that the Pollak Library subscribes to.  Use interlibrary loan via Illiad to obtain an article that is not available in the library in print, electronic, or other format.  

Use the following databases to start your search.
bullet Primary Databases:
bullet PsycINFO
bullet PsycARTICLES
bullet ERIC
bullet CINAHL
bullet PubMed
bullet Social Sciences Abstracts
bullet Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science)
bullet Sociological Abstracts
bullet Women's Studies International

bullet Other Databases of Interest:

bullet America: History and Life
bullet Humanities Abstracts
bullet MLA Bibliography

bullet Electronic Journal Collections
Provide the complete text of articles in electronic format.  Entire issues of journals are available for online borwsing and access. Articles online varies from journal to journal.
bullet JSTOR
bullet SpringerLink Journals
bullet Project Muse
bullet Science Direct
bullet Wiley Interscience


bulletFull-text (or selected full-text) Databases
Provide a mix of article citations and texts from both popular and scholarly publications.

bullet Academic Search Elite
bullet Factiva
bullet LexisNexis Academic
bullet Proquest Newspapers
 

  Prepared by Jie Tian: jtian@fullerton.edu
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Last Updated:04/30/2007