You will find a complete A-Z list of journals (online and in print form) for all subjects in iFind. At the top of the iFind screen click on:
Academic journal articles are an excellent source of scholarly information on your topic. Here are a few tips for finding journal articles:-
You can use iFind to locate journal articles on a topic or by a particular author, if you want to carry out a more thorough search it is better to use electronic databases. Some of these databases (e.g. JSTOR) contain full-text articles, while others (e.g Web of Science) contain only a citation (or record) and abstract (a summary) of the article. In this case, you will often see a 'iGetIt@Swansea University' link which you can click on to see if we hold the article here.
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