Sometimes you know the exact article you are looking for, and you just have to find the full text.
The fastest option is often to search for the title of the article you need in quotation marks in Spartan Search, the search box on the library's homepage. If this does not do the trick, try this more precise option.
Keep in mind, a complete citation for an article includes the author, title of the article, title of the journal, volume/issue numbers, and page numbers. If it's a chapter in a book or another type of work, the details may be different, and the steps to find it will be, too.
- Go the Phillips Library homepage.
- Click the magnifying box on the search box to open the full page search interface/
- Click "Journal Search" at the top of the page.
- Search for the journal title.
- Click on the journal title and look under "Access Online" to see the online access options.
- Look at the publication date range under each access option to see which database has the time period you need. (For example, if your article was published in 1983, a database with issues of that journal published from 2001 to the present is not a good choice.)
- Click on a database title to open the journal there.
- Find the year and click.
- Find the volume/issue number and click when you have found its match
- Find the specific article to access the full text.
If the library doesn't have what you are looking for, you can request the item from another library through Tipasa Interlibrary Loan. Learn how to do this with the online tutorials link below.
When in doubt, ask a librarian.
