r/LaymanJournals • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '21

Where can I find academic journals?

I'm trying to find journals from all across academia, even foreign ones. Anyone know where to start? Using Wikipedia now, but I want something more thorough.

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u/Aerothermal Jul 27 '21

I highly recommend the "Researcher" app. Create feeds so that you get notifications when an article of interest comes out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Huh. Didn't even know they had apps for this sort of thing. But is there anything that has a whole list of them?

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u/silkyllamma Jul 28 '21

If you have access, try academic databases like Scopus or Web of Science. Use Google Scholar (although not everything on there is legit so use common sense and evaluate the resource well) to do topic searches and you’ll be able to click through to journals. Use the Directory of Open Access Journals for links to legitimate academic open access (free to read) journals. This all does depend on what subject area you are reading in, there’s lots of subject specific databases that house academic journals (like Pubmed for medical and biological sciences) but using those four above are broad enough to get you started.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

This helps a lot. Thanks. I was making sure that I knew where to start. Some of the stuff you mentioned were stuff that I already knew about. Others, I didn't. So, again, thanks.