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.
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 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.
Database containing records on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia, published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Includes citations and the full-text of journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes.
This collection charts the rise and fall of fascism in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s, with a particular focus on Oswald Mosley’s blackshirt movement. The bulk of the documents are official BUF publications, including Fascist Week¸ The Blackshirt, The East London Pioneer, and Action. In addition, there are hundreds of Government documents relating to Mosley’s internment during the Second World War, including Cabinet Office, Home Office and Prime Ministerial papers.
This collection contains records compiled by the Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB) Women's Department during the period 1944-1991. The archive includes minutes, agendas, and promotional materials from various women's campaigns, events, and conferences as well as copies of Link, the party's women's magazine, and Red Rag, a controversial journal published by the party's more militant feminist members.
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.
A collection of searchable, full text copies of British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. Useful for exploring a range of themes, such as popular culture, historic events, literary criticism and reviews, political satire, advertisements, and more.
Searchable database providing full-text access to academic journal articles in Social Sciences and Humanities subject areas from China and beyond. Our subscription covers topics: Literature, History, Philosophy (F), Economics, Politics, Law (G), Education, Social Sciences (H) and Economics/Management (J).
JSTOR offers full access to scholarly journals, e-books, thematic collections, primary sources, and images (Artstor) across many subject areas.
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