Goals of Finding Articles

This section covers how to use OneSearch and databases to identify articles on a topic.

After completing this section you should be able to:

• distinguish between popular and scholarly periodicals
• know the difference between primary and secondary sources
• choose a database appropriate to your information need
• use it to identify an article on a topic
• use a database’s email function to send a record to yourself
• use the Search for Full Text link to locate a full text article in another database
• search Journals A-Z to find the full text of known articles