There are many databases that you can use to find articles. Remember that databases will only include journals that are within that particular subject area.
The OneSearch allows you to search through the Cal State LA library catalog and most of our databases. It is a great place to begin searching.
Overviews of academic journals aimed at helping professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts. Information includes the type of review process, acceptance rate, and the number of internal and external reviews used by the journal. The predatory reports module identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals by reviewing on a 65-point metric to flag potentially exploitative or dishonest operations.
Once you finish laughing you may find you actually understand boolean searching once and for all. This lady is bit odd but she's a great teacher!
AND
for when you need all terms in a search string included in the articles you retrieve
OR
for when you have more than one way to say the same thing
if either of the terms shows up in articles retrieved it will be a useful article
* !
wild-cards for getting a root word and all of it's endings
for example: communicat* will search for communication, communicating, communicates, communicated, communicator, etc.
