Library Search is a good place to find high quality, scholarly information, in physical or electronic format.
Use Library Search to search across many library databases simultaneously to find books, eBooks, journal articles, databases, newspapers and audio-visual materials.
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Library databases are collections of online, scholarly resources such as full-text articles, book chapters, multi media, dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
Use library databases to search for information specific to your subject area.
Use Google Scholar to find a broad range of scholarly literature, including:
Google Scholar does not filter out low-quality publications such as predatory journals. Predatory journals charge authors fees to publish without peer-reviewing or editing articles and therefore are of very low quality.
How to make sure it's a credible journal?
1. Search for the journal title in Ulrich's Periodical Directory.
2. Look for an umpire jacket icon - this indicates a peer-reviewed journal.
You can link Google Scholar with Charles Darwin University Library, so when you search in Google Scholar you will be able to access full-text articles (if available) via CDU Library.
If you are off campus you will need to ensure your Google Scholar settings are linked to CDU Library.
To do this:
1. Go to Google Scholar and select Settings (click on the three horizontal bars at the top left of the screen).
2. Click on Library Links and in the search box enter: Charles Darwin University.
3. Tick the box next to Charles Darwin University.
4. Click on save.
Once you have applied these settings, a Fulltext@CDU link will appear to the right of some of your results, indicating that these articles are available via CDU Library. To access the article, right mouse click over the Fulltext@CDU link and choose the option to open in a new tab.