What are journals and why are they important?
Journals are regular scholarly publications which contain articles on specific subjects.
They are important in academic research for a number of reasons:
How do I search for journal articles for my assignment?
Legal databases contain:
How do I search for journal articles using databases?
How do I search for newspaper articles?
Access LexisLibrary or Factiva Academic here, select the relevant database and click on the 'LOG IN' link.
Multi-disciplinary journals, reports and proceedings.
Access to any subscribed titles from the Edinburgh University Press.
Access to the Emerald database of full-text articles covering a range of subjects from management, marketing, economics, engineering, health and social care and tourism.
Bloomberg.com is now available for business and market news and analysis.
Our Institutional access to FT.com has ended. Access from May 1996 onwards is available via ProQuest One Business with a one month embargo. You can also sign up to FT.com as an individual to access three free articles per month.
Access journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
A not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive.
Searching on JSTOR is different from other search engines such as Google because of the scholarly content and focus on research that we make available. To get started with searching on JSTOR watch this quick getting started video:
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Full text access to business information and major international newspapers including foreign language sources. Date coverage varies by individual title from 1980s to today.
Access the complete text of the 20-volume second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, plus the 3-volume additions series.
Access to Oxford University Press journals. If the University of Lincoln subscribes to a listed journal, then many of that journal's articles will also be available in full text.
Watch the video to find out more about how to use the content on Oxford Academic, including how to sign in, navigating around the site, managing institutional account settings, and using different features and functionality.
Provides access to all SAGE journals covering a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine periodicals.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature from scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. Scopus quickly finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts and provides access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools. Be confident in progressing research, teaching or research direction and priorities.
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