Useful for finding articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, magazines and trade publications.
Try one of these article databases useful for finding journal and magazine articles and books.
Newspapers are great for finding local or global perspectives.
Here's an example of a search in the Quick Article Search (a set of Ebscohost databases). This search will look for articles about how children (or teens or adolescents) who are runaways from home might be lured into prostitution (or sex work).
The asterisk character finds any (or no) ending of the word. E.g. child(asterisk) will find child or children
The keywords entered into each of the three search boxes are:
prostitut* or sex work*
AND child* or teen* or adolescen*
AND runaway
The search was limited to articles published in 2018 to present (2023, on 11/10/2023).
Here are a couple of tip sheets on using advanced features within Webster University Libraries' databases, which include:
