LibGuides: Professional Development and Career Advancement Resources: Find Articles

Articles in Databases

The Libraries subscribes to hundreds of article databases that let you search across numerous publications by keyword. These 3 library article databases are recommended to find articles from magazines, trade journals and scholarly journals related to professional development and career advancement.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This interdisciplinary database lets you search across multiple publications for articles on your topic. Includes articles from the publications "Psychology Today" and "Scientific American," both recommended by UT Human Resources.
Updated daily. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This business database lets you search across multiple publications for articles on business, HR and professional development topics. Includes articles from the publications "Harvard Business Review" and "Forbes," both recommended by UT Human Resources.

(Note: Harvard Business Review case studies are not included in any library database because of licensing restrictions).
Updated monthly. A scholarly business database providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included.
Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals. Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.
Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
PsycINFO (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
This psychology database lets you search across multiple publications for articles on psychology, including organizational psychology and human relations.
Updated monthly. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 sources, including international material selected from periodicals written in over 35 languages. Contains current chapter and book coverage with worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present, and adds over 60,000 references annually through monthly updates. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Has over 1.8 million individual records, some dating back to 1887, and includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.

Tutorials

How to Find Articles guide - a guide that includes search tips for databases
What is a library database? - a video tutorial from RMIT university
Popular, Scholarly or Trade? - a guide to help you determine the type of article you need.
Basic search skills for Business Source Complete - a video tutorial from EBSCO, the database vendor
Browsing Subject Terms in EBSCO databases - a video tutorial from EBSCO, the database vendor for all 3 recommended databases, about how to use the subject terms (controlled vocabulary) to search the databases

Where is the article?

If you don’t see a .pdf of the article you want, click Find it at UT to find it in another database or in print in the Libraries.

If it is only in print in the Libraries or we don’t own the article, click Get a Scan to have the article emailed to you.