There are several databases that you can use to find articles. Remember that databases will only include journals that are within that particular subject area. For instance, if you are interested in nutrition needs for the elderly, then you would want to use AgeLine. If you want articles on behavioral therapy interventions for anorexia, then you would want to use PsycInfo.
Provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
Articles that are not yet available in this database are available in Pre-CINAHL. CINAHL Support Center
The Support Center web site provides a wide variety of support and training tools designed to help you learn how to get the most from CINAHL databases via the EBSCOhost interface.
PubMed comprises over 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content in library subscription databases, from PubMed Central, and publisher web sites.
GUIDES:
The PubMed User Guide provides the information in search, cite, save, share, and other areas. Please visit the Guide for guidance. To learn more about how to navigate PubMed, visit PubMed Tutorial.
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.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific journals, books, conference proceedings, datasets, and funding data dating back to 1970. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine social sciences and arts, and humanities. Scopus features tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
The Scopus Information site contains a wealth of resources including:
• User guides and tips
• Title lists
• Quick tips and Frequently Asked Questions
For more information, visit:
• Scopus LibGuide
• Scopus Blog
• Scopus Search - Tips & Tricks
• Scopus Webinars
• Scopus APIs
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
OneSearch allows you to search the Cal State LA library catalog and most of our databases. It is a great place to begin searching.
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: nutri* will search for nutrition, nutritious, nutrient, nutritional, etc.