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Peace and Conflict : Journal Articles

USearch

Looking for some journal articles about your research topic?  USearch is a great place to start. It searches through 80,000 full-text e-journals and a range of individual databases at the same time.

Electronic Journals Listing

Search our Electronic Journals A-Z list for the title of the journal you need. If we have it, it will provide a link to the database (or databases) which hold it and the years covered.

Document Delivery

If the item you want is not available from Ulster sources,  the Library's Document Delivery service can request material from the British Library and elsewhere.

You may request books and articles using the Online Request Form

Article requests will usually be sent to you electronically for download so you must REGISTER for British Library's On Demand service prior to requesting and read the guidance on Secure Electronic Delivery (SED). Book requests will be supplied as loans.

There is no charge for either service, although weekly limits may apply.

What is a journal reference ?

A journal reference gives all the information needed to be able to locate a specific article in a journal or database.

This is a typical journal reference:

Wessells, M. (2009), ‘Supporting the mental health and psychosocial well-being of former child soldiers’, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(6), 587-590
 
This article was written by Wessells (the author) and is about assisting in promoting the mental wellbeing of former child soldiers (the article title).  You can find it in the 2006 volume of Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (the journal title). The volume number is 48, and the article begins at page 587 in part 6.

Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search

Google's Scholar search finds journal articles or other high quality information. It limits results to academic-related sources, such as peer reviewed journals, research based  working papers, books and other scholarly resources.

However, unlike Library databases, it has limited search options, restricted search size and prioritises keywords appearing first in your search strategy, so we recommend that it should not be your sole source of information. Use in combination with appropriate Library databases.

Follow the steps shown in this video http://screencast.com/t/GGEmSfm6 to get links to full text sources held at Ulster. .

To export any references to the Refworks database, go to the Scholar settings, choose the Bibliography Manager option and select 'Show links to import citations into' Refworks.

For more information on Google Scholar, including search tips and citation metrics see: http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/about.html

If you intend to use the 'full' Google, check Settings for advanced search tips to improve the accuracy of your search. Northampton University also has a useful video - Ten Tips for Google Searching.