Research Guides: ENGL 101: Find Books and Articles

Using OneSearch

Using the library's main search interface you can broadly across many different kinds of sources, from encyclopedia entries and books to news articles and scholarly journal articles.

Use the tabs above the search bar to limit your results to only books or only articles..

OneSearch

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Should I use OneSearch or individual databases?

Find articles using Google Scholar

Connect Google Scholar to the OC Library databases!

Go to:

Google Scholar Settings
1. Select "Library Links",
2. Use the search box to find Olympic College, and check the box to select
3. Then [save]

Find articles in OC Librariies Databases

Academic Search Complete
More than 6,300 full-text journals and magazines, including 5,700 full-text, peer-reviewed journals from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR includes articles from over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The majority of content is journal literature, though inclusion of other materials such as eBooks, conference proceedings, transactions, pamphlets, manuscripts, and other materials is growing.
ProQuest
ProQuest databases are useful for researching topics in almost all areas of study, e.g. Business, Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Articles from ProQuest overlap some with EbscoHost, but ProQuest also provides unique content.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides an extensive collection of books and journals in health/life sciences, physical sciences, and social/behavioral sciences.