Research Guides: GAME: Journal Articles

Databases

Databases let you search hundreds or even thousands of journals at once to find relevant research. Watch this short video tutorial for help generating keywords to get started.

Omni
- Brock's largest Interdisciplinary search tool
- Millions of journal articles, books & ebooks, newspapers, videos, magazines and more!
Google Scholar
- Find Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations
- Off-Campus access to Brock resources is available to users who configure their Google Scholar Settings as follows:
  1. Click on Scholar Settings
  2. Select 'Library links' from the left menu
  3. Type Brock in the Library links box, and click the search icon
  4. Select Brock in the resulting list
  5. Click on the 'Save' button
  6. Follow the Find it! @ Brock links to access available full-text.
ACM Digital Library
- Covers computing literature from all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books as well as publications from select publishers.
- Coverage: 1954-current (bibliographic citations with abstracts for journals and magazines)
- Permitted Uses
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
- Provides access to some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
- Published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
- Limited to 50 simultaneous users.
- Permitted Uses
Communication and Mass Media Complete
- Find scholarly journal articles, major journalism reviews, encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies
- Includes CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index
- Permitted Uses
ABI/INFORM Global
- All disciplines of business
- Access to Wall Street Journal, ProQuest Business Dissertations, EIU ViewsWire, Going Global Career Guides
- Includes Proquest Asian Business and Proquest European Business
- Permitted Uses

Selected Journals

Browse through some of these selected journals to find recently published articles

First Person Scholar
First Person Scholar is published by The Games Institutute, University of Waterloo. It aims to connect academic game studies with more popular game journalism.
Simulation & Gaming
Publishes theoretical and empirical papers related to man, man-machine, and machine simulations of social processes.
Game Studies: International Journal of Computer Game Research
To explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming.
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
International Journal of Computer Games Technology is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research and review articles on both the research and development aspects of games technology covering the whole range of entertainment computing and interactive digital media.
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