Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Search the Literature

Search the Literature

Searching the literature (e.g, articles, reports, white papers) can help you discover the latest research in a particular field.

Example: Search PubMed@UCI (a medical literature database) to learn about emerging treatments or advances in medical devices.

Databases for Academic Articles

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of full-text and bibliographic entries from scholarly business journals.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database providing full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
PubMed@UCI This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to millions of citations from MEDLINE and life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of scholarly articles and bibliographic entries on psychology, cognitive sciences, and related disciplines.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
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Research on an array of education topics. Includes peer reviewed, scholarly journals, conference papers, videos, and some Open Access journals.
ERIC (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Database for education research. Includes scholarly articles, book chapters, and dissertations/theses.
For material not available in full text, ProQuest links to where UCI has full text access. A free, publicly accessible version of ERIC is at https://eric.ed.gov/ .
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Full-text newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives, including ethnicity in the workplace.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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The largest index of peer-reviewed literature, in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window
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A massive index for scholarly articles in the sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
Science Direct This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles in the sciences, technology, medicine, and social sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR stands for Journal Storage. Contents usually comprise entire back-run of a publication, except for the most recent (2-5 years) of scholarly journals, across all disciplines.
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Index and full text of graduate dissertations and theses from North American and European schools and universities, including the University of California.

Google Scholar
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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.

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