Resource Guides: ENGR 100: Engineering Orientation: Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

Databases

Use these databases to search for Scholarly Journal Articles on your topic:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
ProQuest This link opens in a new window

ArXiv.org
Google Scholar
Searches the open web for articles. Many will not be full text.

Searching the Databases

Choose a database from the box.

Turn your topic idea into keywords.

Check the Full Text and Scholarly boxes before you click Search.

Creating Permalinks

If you are using one of our paid EdCC databases, you have to ensure that your link will be accessible to your classmates (just copying the URL will NOT work). Follow these instructions to get a link that will allow access to the article:

For Academic Search Premier:

1. Copy the Permalink provided

2. Add http://edmonds.idm.oclc.org/login?url= to the beginning of the link

For ProQuest:

1. Use the EMAIL function to send yourself the article

2. Right-click and copy the link provided in the email