Real Estate: Articles

Subject Guide for Real Estate Students.

Getting Started

There are 2 approaches that you can use to find articles in professional journals:

1. Use the "Articles" tab to find an ARTICLE DATABASE to search a large number of journals all at once.

2. Use the "E-Journals" tab to go a SINGLE PUBLICATION directly and search for articles within that publication.

Explore Census Data This link opens in a new window
Census and survey data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Index to publications in architecture, urban design, urban planning, interior design, and historic preservation from 1741 to present.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Magazines, newspapers and journals in all business disciplines.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles, books, dissertations, working papers and book reviews on economics. 1886-present.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Industry profiles for U.S., China, and worldwide sectors.

Journal of Plannng Literature
Indexes 400+ journals and provides comprehensive coverage of the city and regional planning literature. Browse and Search functions.
Coverage: 1999—Present
Provider: Sage Publications

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Extensive information on U.S. and international public companies, including financials, stock, properties, and SEC filings. Access ends June 30, 2025.
ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Index to governmental and private statistical data.

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles and other material covering environmental sciences.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles on American and Canadian history
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index and full text of scholarly articles covering world history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines, 1872 to present.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Journal articles in the field of sociology, including international literature and other related disciplines.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles and general interest sources in all fields.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation index for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Hathi Trust This link opens in a new window
Digital library of books and journals scanned by a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. See our HathiTrust Guide
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
See help for accessing articles from off-campus through Google Scholar.

Some article databases provide a limiting feature that will select results appearing only in peer-reviewed journals;

UW Libraries Search (below) has a peer-review feature on its column of results limiters.

Other databases that have peer review limiting:

Ebsco Academic Search Complete (General)
All other Ebsco databases such as America: History and Life (History), Philosopher's Index (Philosophy), PsycInfo (Psychology), and ERIC (Education
All Proquest databases such as MLA International Biography (English) and PAIS (Political Science)
All titles in JSTOR and Project Muse are peer-reviewed.

How do I request an article from Interlibrary Loan?
Learn how to request digital scans of articles through UW Libraries Interlibrary Loan department.
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How do I download a PDF of a scholarly article?
Learn how to download scholarly journal articles from UW Libraries' databases.
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How do I save a citation from the UW Libraries catalog?
Learn how to save a citation while searching in the UW Libraries Search.
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What are the elements of a journal citation?
Learn how to identify citation elements of a journal article with different citation styles.
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