Research Guides: Databases To Get You Started: All Subjects

Recommended Starting Points to Find Articles

Not sure where to start looking for articles? Try:

Academic Search Complete*
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings
Web of Science*
Comprehensive interdisciplinary, bibliographic database with article references from journals, books, and proceedings.
Scopus*
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
JSTOR*
A collection of journals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. There is a lag time of 1-5 years between the time that an article is published and when it is placed in JSTOR.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global*
The largest single repository of graduate dissertations and theses.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

3 Tips:

Learn how to use to locate the full-text of journal articles. (Your UCI library number is on the front of your UCI ID card, and starts with 2197000...)

"Scholarly" articles may also be called "academic" or "peer-reviewed" or "refereed" articles.

Use the VPN (Virtual Private Network) if working from off-campus.

Use our A-Z Databases list if you know which database you want to use for your research.

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