How to Find an Article in the Library Database System

Click on the + symbol beside the word “General.” The General category has access to a number of differing subject areas.

If your chosen topic is more specific, consider searching within one of these other subject areas. For example, if you plan on investigating a health-related topic, then check out the databases listed under the “Health and Medicine” header at the top.

Academic Search Complete comes highly recommended, but feel free to check out any of these databases.

Click on the lower case “i” beside the database’s name to get more information about it.

Enter your search terms in these boxes. If you don’t get any results, make sure that you are spelling words correctly. Also try synonyms for the words that you are using.

If you’re looking for a peer-reviewed source, you can use this limiter to filter out popular sources.

To learn more about a source on your list of results, click on its title.

Full text will be provided in either PDF or html format. PDFs are preferable because they include all pictures, graphs, and page numbers found in the print document.

The toolbar on the side of the page offers some nice features.

You can email articles to yourself to make sure that you don’t lose track of them.

You can save copies of PDFs directly to your computer.

You can even click on the “Cite” icon to see how you should document the source on your works cited page.