Finding Articles - PSCI 4640: International Security - Dr. Conteh

Tips for Finding Articles

Library databases index articles, and often link to the full text that the library has purchased. If we don't have the full text, you can order it from Interlibrary Loan, which takes up to 3 days. A librarian can help you with Interlibrary Loan.

To search for an article, use focused keywords and try different synonyms for your keywords. Learn better terminology in a good article by checking the keywords used by the author and use those keywords for more targeted search results.

Most databases are discipline-specific:

EconLit This link opens in a new window
EconLit provides links to full-text articles and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886.
It provides resources in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
This National Agricultural Library database provides abstracts for selected journal articles, and records for books, serials, audiovisual materials and online content from around the world.
AGRICOLA has records from publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
The ABI/INFORM Collection includes full‐text journals and sought‐after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports.
Resources cover business, economic conditions, corporate strategies, management theory, management techniques, business trends, competitive landscape and product information, accounting, finance, and other business-related disciplines.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals. It includes full text of articles from journals dating as far back as 1995 and indexing and abstracts of periodicals dating as far back as 1983, which includes peer-reviewed resources covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and much more.
Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology from around the world.
Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Education Full Text™ provides full text of articles from journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing periodicals dating back to 1983.
Content includes in-depth coverage of special education, and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Subject coverage includes adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, and teaching methods.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
GenderWatch™ provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Combining hundreds of academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging topics.
Subjects covered include: sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
A current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.
The complete collection includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
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Academic encyclopedia and dictionary entries defining and introducing topics in all disciplines.
ProQuest Newsstream (US and Global) This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream includes ProQuest US, Canadian, and International Newsstream. For the U.S., access to current content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s, with top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Selective coverage of Canadian and international news sources.
Including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Excellent "pro/con" analysis of key social, economic, and policy issues. Weekly issues cover a new topic in a 20-30 page report, including a history of the issue, the current debate with likely outcomes, and a bibliography of key sources. Covers 1991 - present.

Getting the Text of Articles

Searching a database will provide citations to scholarly journal articles and other scientific research.

To access the full-article, look for links to:

If there are no full-text links, use Find It! to see if article is available in another library subscription.

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