Research Guides: ENGL1130: 5. Finding academic articles in a database

Other databases to try

The first video on this page is demonstrates using Academic Search Complete, which is an excellent multidisciplinary database for almost all research projects. The second video demonstrates OneSearch which does not include some of the Canadian databases.

Helpful HINT

If you chose a Canadian topic from the assignment list, you will want to try the Canadian databases listed below for the Academic sources requirements for the course.

Canadian Periodical Index: CPI.Q This link opens in a new window
Contains Indexing of nearly 1,200 Canadian periodicals (English and French) with full-text articles from 550 Canadian periodicals.
Subject: Coverage of a broad range of subjects related to Canada.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations.
Subject: Psychology.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC contains citations and abstracts from over 900 educational and education-related journals, primarily American with some Canadian and British publications.
Subject: Education.

Finding academic articles in a library database

Test your knowledge: Academic Search Complete
Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of searching for articles in Academic Search Complete. It's not for marks, just for you to see what you've learned!

Library Databases

Recommended

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 8,600 full text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Subject: All subject areas.
Canadian Points of View This link opens in a new window
Canadian Points of View is a full text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Subject: Environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many more.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ultimate provides full text of 3,500 business periodicals of which more than 2,000 are peer-reviewed journals. Additional full text non-journal content includes financial data, case studies, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses (detailed information about a company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats).
Subject: Business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for 397 "core" journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority" journals. Also includes full text for books, monographs and conference papers.
Subject: Sociology and related fields such as Criminology and Criminal Justice, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Religion etc.
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets
Subject: Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full text access to British Columbia and Canadian newspapers. Coverage: 1985 - present.
Subject: News and current events.

Using OneSearch

Quick link to OneSearch
OneSearch is search platform that searches multiple EBSCO databases at one time, as well as the library catalogue. It does not include some of the other databases with Canadian content (eg. CBCA).

One Search Keywords Quiz

Test your knowledge: Keywords
Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of keyword searching and how to improve your searching. It's not for marks, just for you to see what you've learned!