Guides: Library and Information Science Research Guide: Articles

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Finding Articles

Articles can be found both online and at Mullen Library. A good place to start is the SearchBox for Articles on the home page. You may also choose to click on the databases tab from the home page, then databases by category, followed by the Library and Information Science Tab.

To research a topic begin by brainstorming several related keywords. Then choose a the Searchbox for Articles or a database and begin searching. Expand or refine your topic as necessary. Use the Advance Search option to narrow your results. Sometimes an article will not be available in full-text from a particular database. Try clicking on the "Find It" button to see if it is located somewhere else online, or in the WRLC libraries.

Finding Journals

If you are looking for a particular journal there are two ways to locate it in the University's collections.

To find out if we have online access search for the title in Journal Title Search. If it is available in a database clicking on the title should take you straight to the journal. If it is available in more than one database, pay attention to what years are available, then select the appropriate one.

To find out what the library physically holds search for the title in the WRLC Catalog. Pay attention to the location and call number.

If you are unable to locate a journal in our collections submit a request through Interlibrary Loan.

E-Journals

Aslib Proceedings

Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances

Collection Building

College and Research Libraries

Electronic Library

Information and Organization

Information Technology and Libraries

Interlending & Document Supply

International Journal of Information Management

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Journal of Classification

Journal of Documentation

Journal of Education for Library & Information Science

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Library & Information Science Research

Library Resources & Technical Services

Library Review

Library Trends

New Library World

OCLC Systems & Services

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Reference and User Services

Reference Reviews

Reference Services Review

Google Scholar

Having trouble with an incomplete citation? Can't seem to locate resources on your topic? A little detective work in Google Scholar might do the trick. More info

General Article Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, first stop for the beginning researcher, is our largest multi-disciplinary database, offering thousands of full-text journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Most of the periodicals are covered back to at least the early 1990s, but some content dates back as far as 1887. The database features some content going back as far as 1867, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. To cross-search additional subject-specific databases from this publisher, click on Choose Databases.
JSTOR
The JSTOR project is a digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals in anthropology, Asian Afro American studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and statistics.
Nexis Uni (New LexisNexis)
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. It offers an intuitive, engaging research experience on a wide range of devices and provides collaboration tools to make it easier to work on team research projects efficiently while ensuring that individuals stay accountable.
ProQuest Complete
ProQuest Complete provides a single search to all ProQuest databases that Catholic University subscribes, such as ProQuest Research Library, Historical Newspapers, Dissertation Abstracts International, Social Services Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science, etc. It allows search in a limited subject area too.

Library Science Electronic Resources

Emerald Journals
Full-text access to the journals of MCB University Press, includes "EarlyCite" access to prepublication versions of accepted articles. Subjects cover business, education, engineering, and library and information science.
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (ELIS) is a compilation of hundreds of entries composed by major researchers and practitioners from all over the world. This work discusses these disciplines in a way that exhibits the similarities across the fields and also addresses their unique differences. User options include: citation tracking and alerts,active reference linking, saved searches and marked lists, and HTML and PDF format options.
Library & Information Science Source
The Library and Information Science Source (LISS) contains English and foreign-language periodicals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, library school theses and books. Subjects covered are: librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval and information management. Specifically, LISS is comprised of: Full text for more than 430 journals; 30 full-text monographs, including Handbook of Electronic & Digital Acquisitions, Library/Vendor Relationships, Journals of the Century, etc.; Indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings ; and Thesauri including 10,800 terms, more than 4,090 of which are preferred terms
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
The LISTA bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.