It will be important to use articles from scholarly journals for your Literature Review. It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between scholarly journals, which contain academic content, and magazines, which tend to offer "lighter" reading material.
Take a few minutes to review the information in this brief tutorial, which will help you recognize the differences between the two types of publciations.
Login with your myWSU ID and password to request a copy of an article or book. WSU Libraries participates in RapidILL, so articles are emailed within 24 hours (and often come as soon as 1-2 hours after they're requested). Books are shipped within 24 hours of the request and are sent to Ablah Library for you to pick up. It's free!
Electronic databases are indexes to a large collections of journals (and sometimes also magazines, dissertations, newspapers, etc.). They are the best starting point when you are looking for journal articles on a topic.
Dr. Granada recommends that you use the databases below to find articles for your literature review:
These databases are great to use because they index journals in a broad spectrum of subject areas.