LibGuides: First-Year Foundations: GCI Library Instruction

GCI Library Instruction Slides

The GCI library session covers searching for peer-reviewed articles in specific databases. Review the slide deck and database search strategies here:

Databases for finding peer-reviewed articles can be found in Leatherby Libraries' A-Z Databases list.

Links to databases shown in class are shown below:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database providing access to scholarly journals articles, newspapers, popular magazines, and reviews. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection This link opens in a new window
Platform providing access to all Elsevier journal content and select books, as well as journal titles from other publishers. Multidisciplinary in scope with the strongest content in the health, life, physical, and social sciences. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1995-present.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provide access to the world’s leading scholarly literature and indexes in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, proceedings, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1898-present.

Google Scholar
A free search engine to search for scholarly literature from a variety of sources. Be wary not all results are peer-reviewed!