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Select a database

Canadian University college subscribes to dozens of different databases of articles.  Some databases are general in nature.  You’ll find material from across the disciplines in them. Academic Search Complete  and Academic OneFile  are general databases.

Subject databases cover one discipline in depth. Check the subject categories to find out which databases are best for your topic.

Limit your search

Most databases let you focus your search by full text, date, peer review status, author, and journal title to get to relevant articles more quickly.  More specialized databases offer other limiters.  For example, character name searching is available in the Shakespeare database and company name in Business & Company Resource Centre.  Check the initial search screen of the specific database for the various ways to limit your search available to you.

Keyword search

Think of key words that describe your topic.  Jot them down.  Entering those keywords joined by “and” will retrieve articles with all those words somewhere in the record, title, author, summary or subject. 

• Bad search: “Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic”
• Good search: Canada and sovereign and Arctic

 Need more articles? To broaden your search join similar terms by “or”, for example, “teen or adolescent” 

Subject search 

Once you have found some good articles, examine the subject headings.  Click on the headings that best describe your topic to find additional relevant articles

Get the article

The title and some subject headings are usually on the first page.   Click on the link to the article to find the summary.   The full text is found by either scrolling down the page or clicking on the pdf article.

Email the article to yourself

Check the screen for an email link to email the article to yourself.

No full text?

Click on the green find it button