Journal articles

The easiest way to find journal articles is to type a few keywords for your topic in LibrarySearch. 

If we subscribe to it in print or digital a link will be provided to help you find it.

If you have a specific journal article you are looking for you can use Google Scholar.  This will show you if it is freely available elsewhere, you can also set your browser to link to any content we subscribe to.

To check if the Library has access to a particular e-journal title, or to browse journals, use BrowZine.

You can also use a subject-specific database like those suggested below.


E resources

You may also want to look for other types of information or search through a large index of articles, books and conference papers. We have access to many different e resources to do this:

General indexes:

  • Web of Science – large database providing full text and abstracts (article summaries) for peer-reviewed literature.
  • Scopus – multi-disciplinary database providing full text and abstracts (article summaries) for peer-reviewed literature.

Subject Specific databases:

  • IEEE Xplore– database of journal articles, ebooks, conference proceedings and selected standards for use in the fields of technology and physics.This video tutorial will help you get started on using this database to find journal articles, reports, conference proceedings and more.
  • SPIE Digital Library – The largest collection of optics and photonics applied research, providing full-text access to technical papers from SPIE journals and conference proceedings from 1962 onwards.

Check out our digital resources directory to find others that might be useful to your studies.