Journalism Subject Guide — Scholarly Journals

The UConn Library licenses many research databases and academic journals to support research throughout the University. Given the interdisciplinary nature of topics researched by journalists, more than one of the library's research databases -- arranged in the library's Databases A-Z page by title and subject -- may have relevant content. As with other multidisciplinary fields, looking in multiple research databases can yield the best results.

Search tips:

1. Experiment! Try different combinations of keywords - from broad to narrow.
2. Use boolean logic connectors OR, NOT, and AND within database search interfaces. Using OR between synonyms or related concepts builds flexibility into the search, retrieving more results; NOT will remove items including terms from results; AND limits search results to only those where the terms overlap.
3. Use the truncation symbol (usually an asterisk *) to find variations of root words; for example, teen* searches for teenage, teen, teenager, etc.
4. Searching for phrases in quotation marks forces the search to only retrieve articles where that exact string of characters appears.