You can find online journal articles in two ways.
Select the "Journal articles" button on the Library search box and enter your search terms.
Limit your search results to "Full Text".
You can further refine your search by publication date and if required, limit to peer-reviewed articles.
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You can also use databases to find journal articles.
Select your database from the alphabetical listing, or browse by subject to find a relevant database.
Enter your keywords and refine your search as required.
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If you are accessing online resources off-campus, you will need to enter your student number and library PIN when prompted.
Business Source Ultimate Search for journal articles for your assignments. There is a variety of information in there- from magazines, case studies, SWOT analysis to scholarly papers. If you want to limit to peer reviewed journals, tick Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals box.
ScienceDirect This database has journal articles in science, technology, medicine, the social sciences and business- Information management, marketing, accounting etc.
Taylor & Francis Social sciences journals including management, tourism, computer sciences, economics, logistics etc.
Sage Journals Mutli-disciplinary journal database and peer reviewed journals in Business studies.
Proquest One Academic Scholarly journals, e-books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers. (Has 20 databases including ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Complete (e-books), and Academic Video Online). You can limit our search to academic journals.
Proquest Central Covers databases across all major subject areas (including Business) and has periodicals and newspapers from around the world. You can limit our search to just academic journals.
Emerald Search for journal articles for your assignments. Emerald contains over 200 academic and professional journals in Management, Human Resource Management, Quality, Marketing, Operations and Production, Accounting & Finance, and Information Management, Information Management and Organisational Behaviour. Access via the library (not via Emerald.com)
ORBIS
Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide ranging from large and small listed and unlisted companies. Use it to research individual companies, search for companies by profile and analyse companies. Listed companies normally contain more detailed information. Orbis has information on 130 million private companies. Orbis includes: Company financials in a standardised format, Financial strength indicators, Ratings, Options to create your own ratios and bring in your own data fields, Directors and contacts, Original filings/images, Stock data, Private equity data and portfolios, Patents, Detailed corporate and ownership structures, Industry research, Business and company-related news, and M&A deals and rumours.
How it helps you
Full-text databases provide a set of more specific resources than the general Library Search. The term 'full-text' indicates that the full article is located in the database. There are also research citation databases that have the details of the articles but no full-text. There are many full-text databases available through VU library specific to particular Engineering disciplines. There are a couple listed below.
Search engines are widely regarded as the most popular means of finding information. However, Google, Bing or Yahoo and other popular search engines should never be your only research tool.
What if the VU Library doesn't have the full text of a journal article?
You will be prompted to access an online document supply service when you search the VU Library databases and cannot find the full-text journal article
This service will send the scanned article (if available) to your VU Student Email which must be activated.
This service is available to VU Staff and Higher degree students.