Scholarly articles are published in academic journals, which can be searched in several places:
We have access to many databases, all of which have different content. Some of our most popular databases include:
Search across most EbscoHost article databases as well as the Ebsco e-book collection; interdisciplinary in scope. Note: this search excludes America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts, and L'Année philologique.
If you are looking for a subject-specific database, browse the A-Z List of Databases by subject:
Not all databases have access to the full-text. When the full-text of an article is not available, look the LinkSource Button.
This will search all our holdings to see if we have the journal in print (downstairs in the basement) or through another database. If we do not have the article, you will be prompted to interlibrary loan the article.
During your research, you might come across a citation for an article that you want to read.
To locate the article with the journal finder, determine the Journal Title, Year, Volume, and Issue Number for the article.
In this citation:
Bazerman, C. (1981). What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 11(3).
Search for the journal title in the Journal Finder
In this case, we have the journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences for the year 1986 in the databases Proquest Periodicals Archive and Sage Deep Backfile. You can browse the journal in these databases to find the relevant volume and issue number.
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