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.
Cabells Journalytics help professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts in academic journals. The directories are aimed to assist in organizing and preparing manuscripts. They provide the information on the type of review process, acceptance rate and the number of internal and external reviews.
The Directories also includes extensive information on the style, format of most journals along with analytics-impact factor, Altmetrics (social media mentions), and citation rankings
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.