Research Guides: HHPS 3377 K-12 Drug Education: Searching for Articles on a Topic

Finding Scholarly Articles

In many of the library's databases, you can limit your search to scholarly, or peer-reviewed, journal articles.

Look for a Peer Reviewed or Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals option, which is usually in the middle or at the bottom of the database search page.

Want to know more about scholarly articles? Check out the Scholarly Articles page.

Recommended Databases

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides indexing and full-text of scholarly journals in nursing and allied health.

Looking for articles on a specific topic? Try searching one or more of the following databases.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a good database to start research; however, each database has different content so you may want to search more than one.

Searching for articles pertaining to physical education or coaching in schools? Be sure to try the SPORTDiscus and Education Research Complete.
Need articles pertaining to sports management? Be sure to try SPORTDiscus and Business Source Complete.
Need general articles on health and medicine topics, such as a certain condition or disease? Be sure to try Health Source - Consumer Edition.

MEDLINE Complete
Provides indexing and full-text access to journals covering health, medicine, and other related fields.
SPORTDiscus
Indexes journals covering physical education, sports management, recreation, and other related fields.
Business Source Elite
Provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
Education Research Complete
Provides indexing and full-text access to journals in all areas of education.