LibGuides: UNIV 120: Career and Major Exploration: Find Articles

Article Databases To Try First

Academic Search Complete
1887 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database with full-text and peer-reviewed journals as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887 and searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals.
Nexis Uni
Varies (Restricted to ODU)

Lexis Nexis Academic has been up graded to Nexis Uni. Nexis Uni provides a more personalized experience, intuitive discovery, and a more collaborative research environment. Nexis Uni features news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Offers an intuitive, engaging research experience on a wide range of devices. Students can create individual user IDs and passwords to enable setting of Alerts, saving searches and bookmarking documents of interest.
MasterFILE Premier
1975 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides access to general periodicals covering business, education, health, science,and more; reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; biographies; primary source documents; Magill Book Reviews; as well as an image collection of photos, maps, and flags.
Newspaper Source Plus
Current (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides access to national and international newspapers, many cover-to-cover full-text. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc.

Humanities International Complete
Coverage varies (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
Music Index
1975- present (Restricted to ODU)

Indexes international music periodicals, covering a broad range of subjects from all aspects of classical and popular music. Includes book reviews, record reviews, first performances, obituaries, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Art Full Text
1984 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Art Full Text features full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995 and indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating back to 1984. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.

Business Source Complete
1886 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides comprehensive coverage of the most important scholarly journals for all business disciplines, and author profiles. Also includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
ABI/INFORM Collection
1971-present. (Restricted to ODU)

Comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics periodicals. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

Education Source
1929 - Present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers.
As the complete source of education scholarship, Education Source covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
1800 - present (Restricted to ODU)

Offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.

Engineering Village
1884 - present (Restricted to ODU)

Contains the Compendex (1969-present), Ei Backfile (Engineering Index from 1884-1968), Inspec (1969-present), and Inspec backfile (1896-1968) databases for searching on a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical, and engineering disciplines. Users must have pop-ups enabled on their browser for this resource to work. Click here to view short videos on how to quickly search and retrieve the most relevant engineering research available.
ACM Digital Library
Coverage varies by journal (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) periodicals and proceedings.
IEEE Xplore
Coverage varies (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Contains full-text IEEE journals, magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, and active IEEE standards. Find full text that is available through ODU Libraries' subscription.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Coverage varies (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides indexing, abstracts, and scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with particularly strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also includes drug patient education sheets from Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
1937 - present (Restricted to ODU)

Resource for searching nursing and allied health literature. CINAHL includes indexing for the contents of journals, books, dissertations, standards or practice, proceedings, and more. Provides full text access to over 750 journals, over 220 books/monographs, and contains more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937.

Applied Science & Technology Full Text
1983 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics, and much more.
Environment Complete
Coverage varies by journal (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more from domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s.
PsycINFO
1887 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, mostly peer-reviewed. Journal coverage includes international material in foreign languages. Check the Quick Reference Guide for help using the database.
ScienceDirect
As of 01/01/21 our subscription has changed.

Our ScienceDirect journal subscriptions have changed as of January 2021. See the list of our current Elsevier ScienceDirect journal subscriptions.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
1968 - present (Restricted to ODU)

Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
America: History & Life
1964 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for journals from 1964 to the present, this database is the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
Military & Government Collection
Current (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military through a collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content.
Political Science Complete
1922 - Present (Restricted to ODU)

Has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. The database also features full-text reference books and monographs, and full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. Political Science Complete includes a subject-specific thesaurus.

Monarch OneSearch

Monarch OneSearch, the main search box on the library homepage, is the best place to go when searching for articles about careers. This one-minute video will explain the basics of finding articles using Monarch OneSearch! Some possible keywords would be:

career title (for example: Nurse, Teacher, or "Mechanical Engineer")

career AND the subject area (for example: careers AND "health sciences" or careers AND music)