How to find journal articles

How can I find other articles on my topic?

To locate articles relevant to your research topic you will need to use periodical indexes, which may be in print, but increasingly are in electronic format. Journal indexes can be searched by topic and will provide a list of articles which you can then look up. They may provide an abstract (summary) of the article as well, but in general they will not provide the whole article.

Electronic indexes are known by several other names: electronic databases, CD-ROMs or online databases. There are many different software programs that can be used to search in databases, but the principles involved are usually similar.

Remember these indexes are commercial publications; there is no guarantee that Monash will hold the publications indexed.