Find Journal Articles
The default search box on the library home page is the Articles search. From it you can search a select list of EBSCO databases, or JSTOR, or Google Scholar with EIU electronic Journals.
If you’re off campus, you’ll be prompted for your EIU NetID and password once you begin searching. This searches collections of millions of articles (simply referred to as a “database”) from thousands of different magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and academic (aka scholarly or peer reviewed) journals, with many of the articles available online as PDF.
In the search box, enter a word, phrase, or combination of terms.
For articles that don’t appear online as HTML or PDF, click the 
link to see whether you can find the article online from one of the other dozens of databases we have at Booth, or whether we have the journal in print in the library stacks, or whether you need to order it from another library via our free Interlibrary Loan Service.
Sample searches:
If your research question is:
“Should college athletes be paid?”
Then try these keywords:
college athletes and payment (here are those results)
or perhaps...
college athletes and wages (here are those results)
notice the difference in the number of relevant articles you retrieve from just changing one word!
If your research question is:
“Does watching violence on TV increase the likelihood of aggressive behavior?”
Then try these keywords:
media violence aggressive behavior (Here are those results)
