Finding Articles

Selecting a Database
Conducting a Search
Locating the Articles
Testing Your Knowledge

 

Finding Articles

Conducting a Search

This section will use Academic Search Premier as an example. This multidisciplinary database provides full-text for over 3,900 scholarly publications, including over 3,000 peer-reviewed journals.

• Choose General Topics.
  
  

• Select Academic Search Premier.
  
  

• Enter your topic.
  
  Type your terms into the search box using "default fields" and press "Search."
  
  

• View Results.
  
  The results list displays article citations with links to abstracts for full text. A link at the bottom of each citation provides information on access to that article.
  
  

• Narrow your search.
  
  There are many additional ways to limit your results. For example, from the "Refine Search" tab, you can limit your results to:
     • Full Text
     • References Available
     • Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
  
  
  
  This yields fewer results than a normal subject search.
  
  

• Broaden your search.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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