Scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles cover narrow and clearly defined topics. Find journal articles by searching journal indexes and databases in your discipline and, if your topic covers multiple disciplines, search multidisciplinary databases for articles from various fields.
BioOne provides access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Academic Search Complete is a large multidisciplinary resource that includes the full text for most of the publications in its index.
| Wildcards/Truncation: | Wildcards/truncation refers to the placement of an asterisk at the meaningful root of a word to retrieve results containing that word and all of its subsequent endings. Use a * at the end of the root word or use a ? in place of a letter. Examples: environment* polic*, wom?n |
| Boolean Operators: | Use "AND" or "OR" or "NOT" to narrow or broaden your search: Use AND to make your search more specific and narrow your search. Use OR to search for clusters of related terms enclosed in parentheses to broaden your search. Use NOT to exclude words to narrow your search. Example: (First Nations OR Aboriginal OR Indigenous) AND Canada |
| Field limits: | Field limits are often set to search for keywords but you can change the field limit to search only the specified field for the specified word(s). For example: Field limit: Author: Samuel Beckett Field limit: Title: Waiting for Godot |
| Grouping: | Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query. |
