Research Databases for Articles and Journals Response to post 1 Hello,

Thank you for your post. It is interesting to know that millions of people use the EBSCO HOST database to access journals and articles. Indeed, EBSCO HOST is a convenient database for many. However, as you mentioned, certain publications must first be purchased before being directly accessed, which is a challenge most people face. Fortunately, if you have the DOI link for the journal or the title, you may use a database like Sci-Hub to view the articles for free. The database provides access to millions of journals and articles in order to overcome the barrier to article access in scientific domains (Ajanai, Tella & Okere, 2023). Nonetheless, there are still discussions regarding the legality of Sci-Hub data, and therefore caution should be taken.

Consistently, I must also agree with you that Google Scholar is also a very good database for searching articles and journals. The database is easy to use and provides articles and journals that are up to date. Google Scholar allows users to sort the articles in terms of the year published. Another advantage of Google Scholar is that most articles are accessible, and those with restricted access to the database provide an abstract that may provide information regarding the search topic.

In addition, I would recommend that when searching for articles like the peer-reviewed journal you searched in either of the above databases, one must be very specific to get a relevant article or journal for the search topic. Secondly, when given several articles related to your topic, one shouldn’t limit themselves to just one article, as it may be inaccessible; instead, one should check through the other articles provided.