Contains more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, the majority being peer-reviewed journals. It also provides an index to additional journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings. It covers a wide range of topics and is a good place to start researching a topic.
JSTOR (Journal STORage) is an archive of important scholarly journals in a variety of subject related to the humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences. JSTOR is not the place to search for the most current research, but overall is an excellent multidisciplinary database containing articles from many essential peer-reviewed sources.
An online resource for economic literature. Covering all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
This is IIT's largest business-subject database. It provides full-text coverage of more than 2,200 scholarly business, management and economics journals. More than 10,150 substantial company profiles from MarketLine are also included, as well as case studies, SWOT analyses, Market research reports.
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
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If you filter by subject area, you'll be able to see our librarians' recommended places to start searching for that subject.
Find books, articles, journals, and more from any of Illinois Tech's libraries, both online and in print.
Database Search Tricks
Use keywords, and be mindful of spelling
Use Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to adjust your search
Use filters to limit your results
Use database tools to save your sources and generate initial citations
If you're having access issues, contact the library
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a popular way to search for scholarly articles, reports, books, and more. Make sure to connect your Google Scholar account directly to your library account to streamline your access to articles.
Use Google Scholar to search for academic articles in a variety of disciplines. Make sure to link your Google Scholar to your IIT account in order to see when you have immediate access.
Use our library's guide to link your Google Scholar account to IIT's library and make it easier to access articles and place MyILL requests.
This guide also contains tips on using operators to refine your search on Google Scholar.
