SEE the step-by-step
visual chart or continue reading for the text-based instructions.
In addition to thousands of subscriptions to print, microfilm,
and microfiche magazines and journals, the Library provides access to hundreds
of Internet-based electronic journals as well as to millions of articles in
full-text databases. Finding the article you need can be a multi-step process.
- If you already have a citation for
a specific article, go to step 2;
if not, continue:
Use a database or index
to find individual articles on specific topics. Articles can be found in scholarly
journals, popular magazines, or newspapers, all of which are types of periodicals.
For more information on how to search databases and indexes, see our TALON
tutorial module Finding
Periodical Articles, which provides an overview of the entire process.
- Check the Full
Text Electronic Journals Holdings List for the periodical. If you
are in one of our databases, look for a "Locate Article" or "Locate
Journal Article" link to automatically search the list. Otherwise, use
the link on the Library home page.
- This list includes both electronic journal subscriptions as well as
periodicals that may only have available a selection of the issues and
articles in one of our full text databases rather than all of the articles
in each issue.
- You may search for a specific periodical or browse the full list. Sometimes
periodicals may have slight title variations.
- These lists indicate the database and dates of coverage for each title
and connect to the database; check the date of the article you need to
see if it is covered.
- If the periodical is an electronic journal subscription, the link usually
connects directly to that journal. Locate the volume and issue you need
and browse the issue table of contents to find your article.
- If the periodical is in a full text database, you will need to search
the database for the article you want. Here are several guides showing
how to quickly and efficiently search for specific articles in some of
our full text databases:
- Searching Periodical
Titles in Infotrac Includes: InfoTrac OneFile, Expanded Academic
ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, Computer Database, Health and
Wellness Resource Center, and Business and Company Resource Center
- Searching Periodical
Titles in Factiva
- Searching Periodical
Titles in LexisNexis Academic
- Searching Periodical
Titles in Education Full Text or General Science Full Text (WilsonWeb)
- Searching Periodical
Titles in Journals@Ovid
- Searching Periodical
Titles in GenderWatch
- Searching Periodical Titles
in American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online)
- Check the Library's Catalog
to see if the article is available in the Simpson Library or the Stafford Library.
- Choose Basic Search and change the selection from Title
to Title of Periodical.
- Type in the complete title of the periodical in the search box.
- DO NOT TRY TO SEARCH BY ARTICLE TITLE OR
ARTICLE AUTHOR.
- Check the Holdings section for dates, location, and
format.
- Copy down the call number if the issue you need is
microfilm, microfiche, microcard, or bound. If the call number is Internet,
just click on the link provided in the catalog. See this location
chart for more information.
- If you are off-campus and the catalog link does not take you to the
journal (after asking you to login), then look for the journal on the
Full-Text Electronic Journal Holdings Lists and connect from there (see
below).
- If you have not located the article
either in the Library's catalog or on the full text list, the Library's Interlibrary
Loan department will try to get a copy of the article from another library
that has the periodical. This may take a couple of weeks, so plan ahead!
Authored by Laurie Preston
