Search for and view individual journals
Scholarly articles may provide access to data used in the creation of the article. This data can often be found on the journals website or in data repositories such as Harvard Dataverse.
These databases contain scholarly (peer-reviewed) and popular articles, reports, and grey literature from publication in the legal and political science disciplines. Since they are discipline-specific, there is often a lot of authoritative and well cited information on the topic. However, the peer-review process takes time. You also need to be mindful of what type of source you have retrieved - policy papers, reports, and grey literature should be evaluated carefully.
Law reviews or law journals are the primary forum for legal and policy scholarship in the U.S. academic legal community.
Sometimes topics we are discussing are not contained to one specific discipline. In this case you will want to use a database that contains articles from the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. They are a great way to see who is talking about your topic and to expand your research.
JSTOR provides access to more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as books, primary sources, and high-quality images. JSTOR is full-text searchable and offers search term highlighting.
The Libraries' subscription to this resource will end on 12/31/2025. For assistance in identifying an alternative resource(s), please email researchservices@mail.wvu.edu.
Provides indexing for current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals from around the world.
