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Searching for Scholarly Articles can be intimidating, especially when databases offer so many search options. Below are some resources that you can use to help make it easier.
This is a select list of available article databases. If you want to find others, go to Databases By Subject and search through your discipline (political science, sociology, history, etc.).
Index to journal articles and gray literature on educational research and practice from 1969 to the present and ERIC documents since 1966.
Newspapers are a good resource for seeing how issues were covered in the contemporary media. You can search for UCLA football (or any other topic) and find 1000s of articles. There are many other news sources, which you can find on the News Research Guide.