Subject & Study Guides: Carpentry: Finding Journal Articles

Multi-database Journal Article Searching

Use these two tools to search across a wide range of construction-related databases simultaneously. This is a good starting point, but will not support in-depth searches.

Articles Express
Search for journals articles across a range of databases with this FAST search engine. This is a great first step for searching for journal articles. Just enter your keywords and hit 'Search'!

Google Scholar [Free] This link opens in a new window
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Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives. Not all the results will be available online, however. Results may include citations to works that are not online, or items from databases that Unitec does not subscribe to. Online help for using Google Scholar.

Individual Databases

These databases collect articles together from newspapers, academic and trade journals and other publications. Search here for the latest news and academic research.

ArchINFORM [Free] This link opens in a new window
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An architectural database including over 9500 projects, both built and unrealised.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
Australia/NZ Reference Centre is a large collection of regional full text including magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. In addition to the leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals, it also includes full text biographies, image collection of photos, maps and flags.
Proquest SciTech Premium Collection [Proquest] This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest SciTech Collection™ is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences.
ScienceDirect [Elsevier] This link opens in a new window
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Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books. This includes Health and Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social and Behavioural Sciences
LexisNexis Practical Guidance - NZ Business Law [LexisNexis] This link opens in a new window
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LexisNexis Practical Guidance- Business Law provides access to a collection of guidance notes, commentary, checklists, precedents, forms, cases and legislation across a range of Business Law topics.
You will need to login with your Unitec Office 365 username and password (eg smithj09@myunitec.ac.nz). To get to Practical Guidance click on the down-arrow beside LexisNexis Research on the top-left of the screen

Need help with databases?

Have a look at these videos and guides.

Searching databases for journal articles and news

All about Peer Reviewed Journals

Searching Newztext Plus for Newspaper Articles