Things you can add to your searches to help databases understand you better:
A database brings together lots of information and makes it searchable. In libraries, a database can contain a collection of e-books or articles on general or specific topics. Searching in a database is similar to Googling something, but instead of searching the entire internet, you are searching that database's collection of articles.
This page focuses on using databases to find scholarly articles. In the academic world, an "article" is a long formal essay published in a journal. A journal is like a scholarly magazine on a specific topic. Like there are fashion, home decor, or cooking magazines, there are journals in history, chemistry, psychology, and other topics. Journals were traditionally printed physically, but nowadays they are mainly online and can be found in databases. A database may have access to hundreds of journals with thousands of articles each. You can search all of a database's articles at once by keyword, title, author, journal title, etc.
Learn more about how to search in databases below.
The ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of our most highly used databases to create the largest single academic research resource available today.
Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
Includes in-depth articles that contain unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, the economy, and other relevant issues in the news.
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General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes peer reviewed publications.
Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.
The definitive database for sports and sports medicine research. Providing hundreds of full-text sports medicine journals, it is an essential tool for health professionals and researchers studying fitness, health and sports.
Contains company, industry, economic, and geopolitical market research from Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.