One way to find articles, especially when you don't have a specific topic yet, is to browse the contents of a journal that covers your disciplinary area. Otherwise, searching your topic in one of the databases below is a good way to find peer-reviewed articles.
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Black Studies Center contains The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975, as well as The HistoryMakers® oral history video resource with extensive interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans, eight additional historical black newspapers, Black Abolitionist Papers, and Black Studies Dissertations.
Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.
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Newspaper, magazine and journal articles from ethnic, minority and native presses.
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Journals articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry and other health fields.
To sign up click log in at the top right and find "sign up" at the bottom. Students can then select gmail or another sign up method. Once you have an account setup go to Preferences and add SDSU as an "outside tool." This will add in links to the full text from SDSU. Contact Margaret Henderson, Health Sciences Librarian.
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Search the Library catalog, plus about half our databases to find books, journals and more. EbscoHost databases are not included in the OneSearch index, and will have to be searched separately.
Journal articles, books, and book chapters in psychology and related disciplines.
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
To click through to the database, click on the San Diego State University, San Diego option.
Journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines.
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It helps if you break up you question/hypothesis into separate concepts, each of which you would like to be included in any resources you find. This makes it easier to develop search strategies and find synonyms and other terms for your concepts.
There are several frameworks to help you organize your question into concepts.
