Databases are extremely useful search tools that enable you to search more effectively.
Provides over 20,000 indexed and abstracted journals including 6,600 full-text journals and magazines, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content dating back to 1887.
To see which titles are available in full-text, as well as the names of all titles indexed and abstracted, check the EBSCOhost Database Coverage List and Title List by Subject . Updated daily.
An academic research and teaching tool for locating Children's and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes over 2.6 million fiction/non-fiction records with 650,000+ national and international awards plus 540,000+ quality, professional reviews. It includes over 330,000 author/title links plus lesson plans and teaching guides.
Includes access to over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally. Additionally, there are more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters.
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There are usually five things you can do with a database:
More search tricks:
GoogleScholar searches the entire web for scholarly materials.
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If Google Scholar knows you are a Cal State LA student, you will see "Find it @ Cal State LA" links, pictured below.
Add Cal State LA to your institutions: