Finding Journal Articles

Quicksearch journal databases using Supersearch

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e.g., social policy multiculturalism

• This quicksearch option searches across a number of journal databases.
• It is useful for conducting an introductory search on a topic.
• To link to the full text of articles (if available), click on the SFX button :

Quicksearch will often retrieve a large number of hits. If you need to conduct a more sophisticated search, try searching one or more of the individual databases listed below :

Key database collections:

• Academic Search Complete on EBSCOhost Select EBSCOhost Web link
• Expanded Academic ASAP on Thomson Gale
• Informit Online provides access to over 40 Australian databases
• JSTOR archive of scholarly publications.
• Web of Science (on Web of Knowledge). Select Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Subject databases:

• Contemporary Authors on Thomson Gale Provides biographical and bibliographical information about contemporary authors.
• ERIC on EBSCOhost Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals.
• PsycINFO on EBSCOhost Provides references and abstracts to journal articles covering psychology and related disciplines.
• PsycArticles on EBSCOhost Full text for 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection on EBSCOhost Full text of journals covering psychology and related subjects.
• Religion & Philosophy Collection on EBSCOhost Full text of journals covering religion, philosophy and related subjects.

Finding Newspaper Articles

See the Newspapers page to quicksearch across a number of newspaper databases.

Newspaper databases with full text

• Factiva Full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers from Australia and around the world.
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on EBSCOhost

eBooks (online books)

• Oxford Scholarship Online Full text of over 700 ebooks. Swinburne subscribes to the philosophy, political science, and economics and finance collections.
• EBL Ebook Library A collection of more the 30,000 online books across a wide range of subjects.

Selected eBook titles :

• Britannica online
• International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
• Handbook of psychology
• A Dictionary of psychology
• Encyclopedia of social measurement
• Encyclopedia of social theory
• Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
• The Oxford companion to philosophy
• The Oxford companion to Australian history
• The Oxford companion to English literature

See the eBook (online books) Subject Starter Guide for more eBook databases.

Government Websites

• Arts and Humanities Data Service
• inTute : Arts and humanities
• SocioSite
• SocioWeb
• SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
• Voice of the Shuttle

Author: Annette Steere (asteere@swin.edu.au)