Journal Articles
How do I find articles?
From the library homepage you can use the "Articles, Books & More" tab to search for articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. By default, your search will cover both articles AND books. To search for ONLY articles, change the menu (highlighted in orange) from Everything to Articles.

If you wish to navigate to a specific research database, 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). Click the blue Search button (highlighted in orange) to begin your search:

You will then be presented with results from Search@UW:

Accessing the materials in full text to read immediately
Generally, there will be two ways to access the article in full text from Search@UW. The first is by clicking on the title, at which point the article will immediately open up for you to read. The second option you may see will be an intermediary screen which looks like this:

Simply click on the "Full text available via..." link to be taken directly to that article.
Determining if Polk Library has an article for which you already have a citation
You may have noticed the small link with the text "Journals by Title" (highlighted in red). Click on this link to discover if Polk Library has full text access to that journal:

