The Library subscribes to many databases that have or link to scholarly articles
♦ Some article databases, such as Academic Search Ultimate, index articles in magazines
and newspapers as well as articles in scholarly journals,
but offer ways to limit your search results to scholarly journals.
♦ Some databases, such as Web of Science, only index scholarly journals.
♦ Discipline-specific databases, such as AGRICOLA, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, FSTA,
Education Research Complete, PubMed, and BIOSIS, take broader views of scholarly/professional literature
and also index publications types such as dissertations, books and book chapters, conference proceedings,
and technical reports.
Most of these databases will allow you to limit your search results to only scholarly journals.
♦ Indexes a variety of publication types including scholarly journal articles.
♦ Does not have a way to limit results to only scholarly journals.
♦ Look backwards in the literature by looking up references from the works cited section.
♦ Look forward in the literature by seeing who cited an item. Web of Science databases, Google Scholar, and some other databases and publisher websites give you Cited By references.
Academic Search Ultimate
Index to news magazines and scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.
• Limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Web of Science Core Collection
Multidisciplinary & very current.
Citations from ~8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
Also provides cited reference searching: navigate forward and backward through the literature from a specific article.
CINAHL Plus (1982- )
Nursing and allied health literature.
Agricola (1970- )
Covers material acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Citations are primarily to journal articles and book chapters, but include other type of resources.
CAB Abstracts (1973- )
International coverage of agriculture, forestry, and allied life and applied sciences. Citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports in the fields of agriculture; animal and veterinary sciences; environmental sciences; human health, food and nutrition; leisure and tourism; microbiology and parasitology; and plant sciences.
FSTA: Food Science and Technology Abstracts (1969- ) ***2 simultaneous users***
International coverage of food science, food technology and nutrition. Covers all the major food commodities, biotechnology and microbiology, as well as food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging and pet foods. Publication types include journal articles, patents, reviews, standards, books, reports and conference proceedings.
• You can limit your search results to academic journals
PubMed (this is the Library's link to PubMed)
U.S. National Library of Medicine database with citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
• Includes links to open-access full text articles and other related resources.
• Going to PubMed via Madden Library gives you access to more resources via 
MEDLINE Web of Science interface to the National Library of Medicine's biomedical literature database
Agricola (1970- )
Covers material acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Citations are primarily to journal articles and books, but include other type of resources.
• Limit your search results to academic journals
CAB Abstracts (1973- )
International coverage of agriculture, environmental sciences, food & nutrition, etc.
Citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports.
• Limit your search results to academic journals
BIOSIS Citation Index [Web of Science] (1926- )
Citations with abstracts to worldwide biological and medical literature. Content from journals, meetings, patents, and books.
PubMed (this is the Library's link to PubMed)
U.S. National Library of Medicine database with citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
• Includes links to open-access full text articles and other related resources.
• Going to PubMed via Madden Library gives you access to more resources via
MEDLINE Web of Science interface to the National Library of Medicine's biomedical literature database
FSTA: Food Science and Technology Abstracts (1969- ) ***2 simultaneous users***
International coverage of food science, food technology and nutrition. Covers all the major food commodities, biotechnology and microbiology, as well as food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging and pet foods. Publication types include journal articles, patents, reviews, standards, books, reports and conference proceedings.
• You can limit your search results to academic journals
Engineering Village/Compendex (1970 - )
Engineering journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings, as well as more than 10,000 website abstracts, and 80 full-text searchable handbooks, patents and standards
PsycINFO 1887-
Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology.
Also covers the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as sociology, education, anthropology, nursing, business and law.
• Limit your search results to Peer-Reviewed Journals
• Limit your search results: Under Methodology, select Empirical study
• You can also limit to specific Age groups and by Gender
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (1968- )
Literature in criminology and related disciplines including journal articles, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.
• Limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Education Research Complete
Scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
• Limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health) (1937- )
Good source for articles on nutrition and health.
• Limit your search results to academic journals
• You can also limit to specific Age groups and by Gender
PubMed (this is the Library's link to PubMed)
U.S. National Library of Medicine database with citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
• Includes links to open-access full text articles and other related resources.
• Going to PubMed via Madden Library gives you access to more resources via
MEDLINE Web of Science interface to the National Library of Medicine's biomedical literature database
Education Research Complete
Scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
• Limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Agricola (1970- )
Covers material acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Citations are primarily to journal articles and books, but include other type of resources.
• Limit your search results to academic journals
Business Source Ultimate
All areas of business, including marketing, in scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines.
• You can limit your search to scholarly journals
ABI/Inform Global [ProQuest]
Business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Also includes patents.
If Google Scholar's links don't get you to the article text or you are asked to pay for the article, use the Find It @ Fresno State link:
it will connect to our e-subscriptions, catalog, and our Interlibrary Loan form.
If the Find It @ Fresno State link does not appear, click on the 
double arrow on the end of the last row of the reference entry
Note the type of content you can find via Google Scholar. Re-visit the About Scholarly Articles page of this guide, or the Library's FAQ What is this citation for ... ? if you don't know if it is a citation to a book, article, or book chapter.