How to identify academic resources

Databases

Several of the full text databases to which the Library subscribes include only peer-reviewed journals:

• ACS publications (chemistry)
• JSTOR (multidisciplinary archive)
• Project MUSE (humanities)
• ScienceDirect (sciences)
• Wiley InterScience (business, education, sciences)

Many of the full text databases to which the Library subscribes include some scholarly and/or peer-reviewed journals:

• Expanded Academic ASAP (multidisciplinary)
• ProQuest (multidisciplinary)

Check very carefully that articles from Factiva meet the 'academic' criteria, eg. have a bibliography, etc. There is a wide variety of material in this database, much of it from newspapers and popular or trade journals which may not be acceptable sources.

A literature review conducted in preparation for an honours, masters or doctoral thesis would require exploration of a multitude of indexes (both print and electronic) and databases.