You may need to find good articles for your annotated bibliography.. Some may be available full text immediately; some may need to be requested. Start your searching early—this takes time!
Take a look in these databases!
Our First Tip: Each database covers different journals, so you will need to look potentially at several databases to get a good coverage of the person/topic you wish to focus on in an annotated bibliography.. Best 1st database to try: Education Research Complete.
This collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study. Includes scholarly articles, magazine articles, & articles from newspapers.
Database provides access to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Be sure to look at the rest of our Strategies & Tips too--See the tab above!
Database Tutorial:
Some quick, powerful ways to focus on what you need in the databases:
Often a great way to focus on articles that focus on a person or topic (such as a particular language or aspect of a language) is to use the database's Subjects:
Look to the left of your results for a list of Subjects. Select your language.
Next to your results under the Subjects listed, you might see japanese or japanese language as an option, for example.
Can't get the full text of an article through one of our databases?
If you can't find full text using the links for "HTML Full Text," "PDF Full Text," or "Find It via Full Fext Finder," you may be able to request a copy via Interlibrary Loan
Where can you identify potential articles outside of the databases?
Look for citations of articles listed in bibliographies and Works Cited in the books and articles you find.