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Places to find academic articles
Google Scholar
If you're having trouble finding freely available articles, uncheck the 'include patents' and 'include citations' boxes on the left of the search results, and add filetype:html OR filetype:pdf at the end of your search. If your search results are full of Google books results and you don't want books, add -book to the end of your search.
Britannica School gives access to some academic articles. Search as normal, then click the More tab, and choose EBSCO Journals.
NSW State Library databases (we also have a page of instructions for how to use the databases).
Open Access databases
Open Access (or OA) journals are academic journals or books that are available freely to all.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - It helps if you limit the full text language to English (unless you speak any of the other language options fluently!).
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - A way to search for peer-reviewed OA books that are available for download.
BASE - An academic search engine that can be used to find peer-reviewed OA articles. On the advanced search page, uncheck the 'non-open access' in the second box on the left. If your results still contain a lot of non-OA sources, use the 'Access' drop-down menu under the 'Refine Search Result' list on the right and select open access.
CORE - Use the options on the left of the search results to refine your search.
Google Scholar
If you're having trouble finding freely available articles, uncheck the 'include patents' and 'include citations' boxes on the left of the search results, and add filetype:html OR filetype:pdf at the end of your search. If your search results are full of Google books results and you don't want books, add -book to the end of your search.
Britannica School gives access to some academic articles. Search as normal, then click the More tab, and choose EBSCO Journals.
NSW State Library databases (we also have a page of instructions for how to use the databases).
Open Access databases
Open Access (or OA) journals are academic journals or books that are available freely to all.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - It helps if you limit the full text language to English (unless you speak any of the other language options fluently!).
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - A way to search for peer-reviewed OA books that are available for download.
BASE - An academic search engine that can be used to find peer-reviewed OA articles. On the advanced search page, uncheck the 'non-open access' in the second box on the left. If your results still contain a lot of non-OA sources, use the 'Access' drop-down menu under the 'Refine Search Result' list on the right and select open access.
CORE - Use the options on the left of the search results to refine your search.
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