For a refresher on how to search for articles, review the relevant content (find articles) from IDS102 (Library research skills and information literacy).
If you identify an article that is not available to you from TCNJ, then you can request a copy of the article via interlibrary loan (ILL).
Does TCNJ Library hold a journal (either online or in print) that you're looking for? Find out here.
You can remove a lot of the guesswork from the process of locating good articles by following one simple strategy: When you find just one relevant article, use the citations at the end of the article as a starting point to find more articles. In other words, see whose work the author has referenced, and see if it may be useful for your work.
Find articles / scholarly research about your topic.
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest). Articles on business, management and industry; includes peer-reviewed scholarly research. Full-text coverage for more than half of included sources.
Wall Street Journal (1984-current via ABI/Inform). Direct link to the WSJ works from TCNJ campus only; when logging in from off-campus, start with ABI/Inform (see link above) and select Wall Street Journal as the publication title.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Business Abstracts with full text (Wilson Web)
Science Direct (Elsevier)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Look for the thesaurus function to enhance your search. Like the thesaurus you may have used while writing a paper, the thesaurus function in an article database (sometimes called a controlled vocabulary or subject terms listing) shows related and synonymous words for your search terms. In a database, the thesaurus is also an alphabetical listing of all of the subject terms used to categorize the information in the database.
The thesaurus can help you find other ways to talk about your subject and to learn what category labels the database uses for your topic. For example, you might search the thesaurus for "executive salaries" and find out that the database uses the phrase "executive compensation" instead. You can use the thesaurus to add "executive compensation" to your search and get all the relevant items in the database.
The thesaurus is often found in the menu bar or in the advanced search of a database.