When looking for academic journal articles you can use the 'everything' search in Library Search or search directly in the databases below, which we’ve selected as being most relevant to your subject area.
Databases are the best place to find academic journal articles as they offer advanced search tools, metric data, and export options for referencing. These databases also often provide access to information types such as conference papers, book chapters, review articles, trade magazines, and more. BrowZine can also be used to explore e-journal titles in your subject.
While most of our collection is now available digitally, some titles may only be accessible in print. You can find these journal titles using an ‘everything except articles’ search in Library Search.
You’ll also find links to essential reading for your programme in your module reading lists on Canvas.
Key Databases and E-journal Collections
Databases will either provide you with the full text of the journal or they will give you the bibliographic details of an article. Where full text is not available, look for the
link and follow this to see if we have the full text available via Library Search.
Subject databases
Subject databases are tailored to particular subject areas. They tend to use precise terminology relating to the subject area, making searches more accurate, and can include subject specific tools and features.
Key Databases and eJournal Collections
- AATA (Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts)Comprehensive database of nearly 150,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
- BCIN Conservation This link opens in a new windowThe Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
- CNKI China Academic Journals This link opens in a new windowSearchable database providing full-text access to approximately 2.8 million articles in journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities subject areas. Subscription covers F (Literature, History, Philosophy), G (Economics, Politics, Law), H (Education, Social Sciences) and J (Economics/Management)
- Film and Television Literature Index This link opens in a new windowDefinitive online tool for film and television research. Coverage includes film and television theory, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Indexes and abstracts for more than 300 publications (and selected coverage of more), as well as full text for more than 90 journals.
- Film and Media Studies journalsA-Z list of links to online, open access, English-language Film and Media Studies related e-journals, plus other relevant scholarly, journal websites with at least some OA content.
- LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowThis resource contains the full digitised archives of 26 LGBT publications, mainly from the UK and USA. Coverage dates from 1957 to 2015 (depending on the specific publication).
- Rock's Backpages This link opens in a new windowThe largest database of online music journalism, providing access to thousands of interviews, reviews and articles about artists of all genres, from Aaliyah to ZZ Top. Coverage dates back 50 years, and also includes 500 audio interviews.
All databases should have a help section with tips and tricks on how to get the best out of using them, so do make yourself familiar with them. You also may find the following helpful:
Film and Television Literature Index
- EBSCO HostVideo Tutorials of help and support. Useful when learning how to use The Film and Television Literature Index.
JSTOR
- JSTOR supportHelp and support on how to search on JSTOR
Scopus
- Scopus supportHelp and support on how to access and use Scopus.
Business Source Complete
- EBSCO Host supportVideo Tutorials of help and support. Useful when learning how to use the Historical Abstracts database.
Multidisciplinary databases
Much like Library Search, multidisciplinary databases cover a wide range of topics and are a great place to scope your search, or to use if your topic covers more than one subject area.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a large, multidisciplinary database, which indexes peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research and set up citation alerts. Other useful tools include citation overviews, author and affiliation searching, visual analysis of search results and a journal analyser and author identifier tools (if you are interested in publishing work).
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