Searching electronic databases to find research articles. The best sources for literature reviews consist of journal articles reported by the individuals who actually conducted the research or originated the ideas. You can find journals in the stacks at your academic library, but it would take too much time to review them all by hand. Therefore, to locate journal articles on your topic, you should search the electronic databases available. Five useful databases that offer easy retrieval of journal articles and other documents related to educational social, and health topics are listed in Table 4.2. If you access these data bases through your library, they may also indicate which documents