Help>>find an article
- Search Find Articles (Databases)
Databases are purchased by the library. They index articles
with bibliographic information, abstracts, and/or full text.
The articles come from journals, magazines, newspapers, etc,
which require the articles to go through an editing process
before publication. They aren't a web page just the electronic
version of a print article.
- Search within a Specific Periodical
-
Find
Full Text Periodicals list specific periodical titles to
search or browse.
- Databases also provide the option to search only a specific
periodical. However, each database does not index the same periodicals.
Also the periodicals may not have full text.
- Search
Find
Full Text Periodicals by the periodical title. If the library
owns the title through a database, it will appear in the search
results.
- Before clicking on the hypertext of the database name,
confirm that the publication date is carried by looking
at the time range provided. If it does, click the hypertext
to open the database. Then, search for the article by title
or browse for it.
- Search the Internet using a search engine such as Google
or search
FindArticles, a search engine for articles available online.
In the search box, type in the title of the article within quote
marks (""). If the title doesn't work, try searching the homepage
of the periodical title for archives of past issues that aren't
indexed by a search engine. Note: Be careful when searching
to Internet. Some articles are available if you purchase it.
- If the above searches don't result in the full text article,
use interlibrary loan. Remember that
interlibrary loan can take 8-14 days to arrive.
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