| Browzine |
BrowZine is an app available through Texas State University Libraries and allows you to browse academic journals by subject, easily review tables of contents, and download full articles.
Stay Current by creating a personal bookshelf of titles to follow and receive new issue and new article notifications. Get access on your computer, mobile device, or phone. Download the app for or Apple and android devices.
Where to Search
Use the Libraries' Research Databases to find articles on your topic.
Political Science databases are a great place to start your research and offer full-text articles, meaning that the actual article is available in the database. Depending on your topic, you may find databases from related disciplines helpful as well.
Databases contain proprietary content from a variety of scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, and more.
Search Strategies
Search by keywords and phrases. Maximize your keyword searches with Boolean searching:
| AND | internet AND teenagers | all words must appear in the result list |
| OR | teenagers OR adolescents | either word may appear in the results |
| NOT | "social media" NOT facebook | must mention the phrase "social media", but excludes items with the term facebook |
Phrase Searching: use "quotation marks" to search for phrases.
Truncation: the asterisk (*) symbol is used most often in library databases.
legislat* will search for all forms of the root:
legislate
legislature
legislative
Review Subject terms. Those are listed in the databases and records of citations in search results. These can be useful for learning the preferred vocabulary of a discipline.