Databases for Education

Throughout your studies, you’ll need to access journal articles for your assignments, but how do you find them?

• The USQ Library subscribes to a comprehensive range of databases which index scholarly journals, providing access to abstracts of articles, and in most cases, to the full text of the articles online. 
  
  Access all Databases allows you select a database by name, or by subject.   If you haven’t already, viewing the database section in either the Information for Success or the Learning Journey  tutorial will help you become more familiar with databases.

Databases have their advantages, but what about the Internet?    What about Google?  

• Google Scholar is a very effective searching tool to locate references to refereed and scholarly articles.  However, whenever you attempt to view the full text of an article through such a commercial site, you are likely to encounter a request to “pay” for access.    It’s important to remember in such cases, to take the full reference of the article, return to the Library catalogue and search to see if the journal is held by the library, making full use of the USQ Library’s journal subscriptions. 
  
  The Effective Internet Searching  tutorial also offers further advice on locating and evaluating quality resources.

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