Research Guides: ELI Grad VI: Home

Researching in your Field

Use this guide to start your research. Remember that you can:

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Search for scholarly journal articles or magazine and news articles about your topic.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Search for magazine articles about your topic. You will need to use the publication filter to choose sources such as The Economist, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, or Harper's.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Search for newspaper articles related to your topic. This database includes regional, national, and international newspapers, but you can use the publication filter to choose specific publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Trade publications, scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, and other sources related to all areas of business, including marketing and economics
ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
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Trade publications, scholarly journal articles, and other sources related to business, marketing, and economics
EconLit This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles, book citations, and other sources related to economics

Health & Medicine This link opens in a new window
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Magazine articles and scholarly journal articles on health and wellness research
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles related to medicine
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles related to medicine
Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles in the sciences

Public Policy

PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
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Covers public policy issues & emphasizes factual & statistical information. Print & electronic journals in the social sciences are indexed with particular attention to articles that bear on public policy, administration & legislation. Business topics are covered, with emphasis on economic factors, industry surveys, business-societal interactions & similar issues, rather than details of business operations. (Coverage: 1915 --)
Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Bibliographic database for criminal justice & criminology research. Provides cover-to-cover indexing & abstracts for journals covering all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law, & investigation. (Coverage 1968 --)
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Indexes the international literature of sociology & related disciplines in the social & behavioral sciences. (Coverage: 1952 --)
Can also be searched as part Social Services Abstracts.

Education

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Indexes & abstracts as well as some full-text education journals. Covers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education. Also includes a collection of videos that provide practical online teacher training that addresses the evolving landscape of education.

Media Studies

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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Journals in communication, mass media, & other closely related fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing & abstracts for over 570 journals, & selected (priority) coverage of nearly 200 more. Also includes full text for over 450 journals. (Coverage: 1915 --)

Linguistics

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical & geographical linguistics.

Environmental Studies

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment, including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, & more.
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
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Focuses on the study of sustainability & the environment. Topics include ecosystems, global warming, food safety, & introductions to environmental disasters.

In most databases, these practices will help you get the best results:

Do keyword searches using quotation marks and search connectors ("medical tourism" AND "health insurance")
Once you find some sources, look at the subject terms listed in the database. These can help extend your search.
Use the filter column to limit your results by publication date, source, and more.
Use the Get it! button to access electronic full text or make an Interlibrary Loan request.
Remember that you will need to try multiple searches! Contact a librarian when you need help.