MC 3103: Advanced Print Newsgathering: Scholarly Research Databases
Search for Scholarly/Academic Research
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DiscoveryDiscovery is the default search for LSU libraries. It searches about 80% of the journal articles and all of the eBooks and print books owned by the library.
LSU Libraries has access to hundreds of academic databases. Below are just a sample of the databases at LSU:
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Communication Source This link opens in a new window
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Searching Tips - Databases
- Use quotes for searching exact phrases
- example: "college students"
- results will only include articles with this exact phrase
- quotes are used to narrow your search
- example: "college students"
- Use Boolean operators AND or OR
- AND example: media AND sports
- results will include only articles that include both search terms
- AND is used to narrow your search
- OR example: tobacco OR smoking OR cigarettes OR nicotine
- results will include articles that have any of the search terms
- use OR to find articles with similar or related keywords
- OR is used to broaden your search
- AND example: media AND sports