Databases are extremely useful tools for finding peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as scholarly essays and chapters in eBooks.
Not sure which database to use?
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.
Subject Coverage
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.
Search for articles in OneSearch if you:
1) Have an interdisciplinary, experimental, or very specific topic and are having trouble finding articles in a database.
2) Have a topic in mind and are not sure which database would be best.
3) Know the title of the exact article you are looking for and need to find it.
Note: OneSearch does not search all databases, so you may miss some articles.
GoogleScholar searches the entire web for scholarly materials.
Downside of using Google Scholar:
Upsides of using Google Scholar:
How to get Google Scholar to recognize you are a Cal State LA Student:
If Google Scholar knows you are a Cal State LA student, you will see "Find it @ Cal State LA" links, pictured below.
If you are on-campus, access Google Scholar from the library home page to ensure you are connected to Cal State LA's articles.
If you are off-campus, access Google Scholar from the library home page. If you do not go through the library homepage, make sure you add Cal State LA to your institutions:
Peer-review means the journal publishes articles that have been reviewed by 3-5 experts over the course of 3-9 months.