Scholarly articles

Search across almost all of the library's fulltext articles, ebooks, books and more.

When you search off campus, remember to set Google Scholar preferences to recognise QUT Library holdings

• Scholarly books & ebooks - good starting point
• Peer reviewed academic journal articles (e.g. Academy of Management journals)
• Good quality trade magazine articles (e.g. Harvard Business Review, The Economist)
• Industry data, statistics & reports

"Peer reviewed" means that:

• Written by experts 
• An editor and one or more subject specialists review the article before it is published
• Accurate information
• Well-researched
• Contributes to knowledge in a field
• Mainly journal articles
• Published in legitimate journals
• Trust the information given is accurate and reputable

Search tips

• Use the keywords not the entire question
• Link your keywords together into an effective search
  • AND: combine concepts. Smartphone AND Australia
  • OR: connect synonyms. Smartphone OR mobile 
  • (nesting): keeps terms together
  • (smartphone OR mobile) AND Australia
  • “phrase search”: “integrated marketing communication”
  • Truncat*: Search on the stem of the word

• Most current research
• Abstract – a summary of the article 
• Author has academic credentials & associated to institutions
• Structured & formal language
• Discussion & Conclusion can be the most useful
• Bibliography or Reference List – useful to see more papers
• Charts, statistics & specialised vocabulary