Why use articles for research?
For news or research articles, start with multi-disciplinary databases and subject specific databases.
Open Academic Search Ultimate. Select Choose Databases and select PsycArticles and PsychInfo.
1. Asian American = 35,000 results
2. Add acculturation = 2780
3. Add women = 470
4. Limit to Scholarly Journals = 378
For author biographical or literary criticism of works, try the Literature Databases.
Library databases:
A-Z list and by subject
Your topic may concern subject areas such as education, health, history, etc. You may consider searching within databases that contain articles that were published in subject-specific journals.
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers with in-depth coverage of 2,300 of the most studied authors.
MLA International Bibliography
This is mainly an index, so be prepared to use Interlibrary Loan! Provides indexing of over 4,000 journals and series. Also indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
Humanities International Complete
A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books & other published sources from arount the world. This database includes data from American Humanities Index & Humanities International Index.
Complete text of the 20-volume 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1989), plus its 3-volume Additions Series (1993, 1997).
You found an article referenced in a book or other article and need to find it: