Research Guides: ENGL 4074/5074: Children's Literature and Human Rights: Finding Articles

Developing Keywords

This video shows you how to develop keywords to find sources about your research topic.

Article Searches

Use these databases to find articles

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Child Development and Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window
Current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly research pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Provides peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health and is produced by the American Psychological Association.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, public administration, and public policy.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources. PAIS Archive is included in this database and includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspaper articles covering international, national, and local news. Includes the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Charlotte Observer, and many others.

VIDEO: Using Academic Search Complete

This video shows you how to use Academic Search Complete to find scholarly articles from a range of discplines.

VIDEO: Finding Sources through Citations

This video shows you how to find sources cited in a book or article using the library's search system.

Peer Review

A peer reviewed journal or article is one in which a group of scholarly reviewers in the subject area of the journal reviews the content for quality of research and adherence to editorial standards of the journal. If you use materials from peer-reviewed publications they have been vetted by scholars in your field for quality and importance.

You can limit your search results to peer reviewed materials in many library databases.

VIDEO: Scholarly Sources and Popular Sources

Source: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Scholarly_versus_Popular_Sources