If you're not getting good search results, check out our tips on how to troubleshoot your search.
Here are a few approaches you can take to find articles:
The library subscribes to about a hundred article databases! Most of them focus on a particular subject (or maybe a handful of subjects).
Start your search from the library homepage, and select "Articles only" from the dropdown menu. This is a good option if you're researching something that might span several subjects. For example, if you're researching 9/11, maybe you're interested in its psychological effects on Americans and the government policies and laws that resulted from it.
Try Google Scholar. We've got more information on how to connect Google Scholar to library resources, so you don't have to shell out $45 for one article.
Here are a few approaches you can take to find peer-reviewed articles:
1. If you searched Our Collections (the search box on the library homepage), look for the "Peer-reviewed journals" option under the "Only Show" dropdown menu. Clicking "Peer-reviewed journals" will limit your results to peer-reviewed articles. The red circle and arrow at the left of the image below show where to find it.
2. You can confirm search results are peer reviewed by looking for the purple icon with the words "Peer Reviewed" underneath the article information. The red arrows near the center of the image below show examples of this.
3. Many of our library databases include options to limit your search results to peer reviewed articles only. Look for the option to click "Peer Reviewed" or "Peer reviewed journals," usually listed under "Refine Results" or "Filter Your Results."