Where you should search depends upon your topic.
Image Source: The Boston Gazette and Country Journal. Obituary of Patrick Carr, the fifth and final victim of the Boston Massacre. Published 19 March 1770; includes an engraving of his coffin by Paul Revere. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons.
You'll get the best results if you search for articles in a subject database that focuses on your topic.
Looking for information on how to plan for death? A multi-disciplinary source would be best: Academic Search Premier.
Searching for a topic that falls under the psychology of death? PsycINFO is where you should begin.
Interested in the medical aspects of death? Try MEDLINE, a medical database.
Unsure what a scholarly journal article looks like? This Interactive tutorial identifies sections that should appear in a scholarly journal article.
Search the following databases to locate journal articles on death and dying.
Covers the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and more. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,200 periodicals in dozens of languages.
Subjects covered include: anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology.
Newspaper articles will provide current event information, as well as historical information--search New York Times (Historical) to see how death, burial and
related customs were viewed in the past.