Sometimes an instructor will suggest you use peer-reviewed or scholarly articles. What are they talking about? In contrast to popular magazines like Time and People, academic and professional journals are written by and for experts in a specific subject. Examples are The New England Journal of Medicine and American Historical Review. A peer-reviewed article is one that has been evaluated by a panel of experts before being accepted for publication.
The library's databases offer you an option to limit your search to peer-reviewed journals.
You can find thousands of articles in magazines and journals in the library's databases. What is a database? A collection of the online versions of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles that can be searched and accessed online.
Click on one of the multi-disciplinary databases like Academic Search Premier or use the pull-down menu to select databases in your subject area. If you are off campus, you will see a login page at this point prompting you to enter your student ID. Once you are in the database, you can search for articles and then download or email them to yourself. For more help, look at the Search Tips tab in this guide or send us an email.
If you have a citation already and want to find out if the article is available at Foothill, use the Journals search.
Foothill students, faculty, and staff now have access to The New York Times digital version including Cooking, Games, The Athletic, and Wirecutter.
View the following video to get started:
Please Note: If you have previously registered your email address on The New York Times site, you will click the "Already have an account?" "Log in here" link (below the "Create Account" button). Existing Paid New York Times subscribers must cancel their paid subscription before authenticating via the Foothill Library subscription.
If you come up short in the library's databases, you might try searching Google Scholar. Most articles are not available full text, but it is possible to link to Foothill's collection. Click on the menu button (the three bars) on the Google Scholar site and select Settings. In Settings select Library Links, search for Foothill College, and add it to your library links.
