Journal Articles
How do I find articles?
From the library homepage you can use the "Articles & Journals" tab to search for articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. By default, your search will be performed in the database Academic Search Complete, which covers many subject areas all at once. If you wish to navigate to a different database more specific to the subject in which you are searching, the dropdown menu listing all databases may be accessed in the lower right of the search box (highlighted in red), or you can navigate to a separate page listing databases by subject (highlighted in yellow). Enter the search terms that best describe your topic and click "Find" (highlighted in blue):
You will then be presented with the Academic Search Complete result screen, just as if you had performed the search within the database itself:
Remember also that you may combine search terms with "and"/"or" to narrow or broaden result sets.
- AND: Narrows your result list. If you searched for "Gladiator and arena", only those results including both those terms would be returned to you.
- OR: Broadens your result list. If you searched for "Gladiator or arena", results which had just one of those terms, or both, would be returned to you.
Accessing the materials in full text to read immediately
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Determining if Polk Library has an article for which you already have a citation
You may have noticed the additional search box with the text "Find Journals by Journal Title" (highlighted in red). Enter in the title of the journal to discover if Polk Library has full text access to that journal:
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Watch this video to learn more about finding an article in full text if you already have the citation:
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