Searching Journals

Why explore multiple databases?

Don’t fall back on using the same old library database. Research broadly because:

  • different databases hold different selections of journals
  • databases can vary in their dates of coverage for a journal
  • some databases will have full text of a certain journal; others may not
  • some databases will have PDFs (so you can cite page numbers), while others will have HTML copies of articles
  • a PFD of an article from one database may be searchable and easy to read; a PDF of the same article in another database may be a scanned copy that you can’t search and will have trouble reading

Take a look at the journals to consider.

Use a mix of databases and direct searches to get the most years and relevant journals.

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