Find Scholarly Articles

The Washington University Libraries have tens of thousands of journal titles with millions of articles in both print and electronic formats. Additionally, you may request journal articles not at WU Libraries through our Interlibrary Loan service ILLiad.

To find scholarly articles...

Use Article Databases and in the database, limit your search to scholarly, peer-reviewed, or refereed. Can you describe the difference between articles written in scholarly and popular publications? Read more about scholarly and popular

Article databases may be General and Multi-Disciplinary or Specialized and Subject-Focused. Use Find it! Find Database to search for a database by title or subject.

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Use Find it! QuickSearch to search up to ten databases at once.

*On the QuickSearch page, toggle the button next to Need it Now? to search databases that link directly to full text articles.