The Discovery Search box on the CSU library homepage is a great place to begin your research. This Search All box searches most of the library's databases all at once.
These databases listed below are good starting points. For a complete list of databases, click the Databases button on the CSU Library homepage.
Accessing the databases listed on this guide require you to first be logged in to the myCSU.
Peer-reviewed articles, sometimes called scholarly or academic articles, are research studies or critical overviews of industry topics that are written by subject experts and reviewed by other experts in the field before publication in order to ensure the articles' quality.
See this guide for more information about identifying peer-reviewed articles and how to find them in the CSU Library.
To search library databases, try different keywords/short phrases. To phrase search, place phrases inside quotation marks or parentheses. This tells the database to search the phrase as a unit.
For example:
Buddhism AND “sacred text”
Buddhism AND (sacred text)
Buddhism AND (political OR social)
Having trouble accessing library resources? Refer to our Tech Tips or contact CSU HelpDesk Support at 877-399-1063 or via chat in your myCSU Student Portal.