Find Articles  

List of Databases

• Click on Full-Text or Full Text PDF to retrieve articles that can be read immediately.
• Click on Peer-Reviewed or Refereed to view articles from scholarly journals
• Enter in keywords rather than full sentences
• By placing quotation marks around a specific phrase, you can limit your results to items that use that exact phrase, e.g: "global warming"

Search Multiple Databases

• Things to know before the search:
  • Includes primarily article databases (not statistical databases, not e-book databases)
  • Enter in keywords rather than full sentences
  • Quotation marks around a specific phrase (e.g: "global warming") limits your results to items that use that exact phrase, (though not all of the databases support phrase searching in the multiple database search)
• Things to know about your search results:
  • Results are displayed in sets of 25 articles per database
  • Articles are not ranked in any order for relevancy (the most likely to be a major article on your topic).  First in the result list are ones from the databases that responded first and included your search terms.  
• Things to know to adjust your search results:
  • You can only limit the results to full text after the initial search.  Click on the "Full Text" checkbox on the left on the results page.
  • During and after the search, you can click on "Show Summary" to see what databases are being searched and which databases have the most hits.  Click on them to limit to just that database.
  • You can limit which set of databases are searched by clicking on either "Refine search" or "New search" on the top left. Click on "All" at the top of the database list to see the entire list and select from it.

Article not available in full text?

You can request it by filling out the Inter-library loan form and we will get it for you from a different library.