A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
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5. Select both options
6. Type "Worldcat"
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Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, public administration, and public policy.
This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources. PAIS Archive is included in this database and includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
Contains full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, and finance.
Locating Peer Reviewed Articles
Peer reviewed articles are written by academics and scholars for academics and scholars. To be accepted by a peer reviewed journal an article must be reviewed by experts (peers) in that field. This review acceptance process is more stringent than for scholarly articles.
Contains full-text articles on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, humanitarian law, global governance, and environmental studies.
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