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Find Journal or Magazine Articles

A good place to start to find articles in journals or magazines is to go to the library's databases, scroll down, and then highlight a general database. (General databases are also listed in the right column of the database page.)

A general database contains articles from many disciplines and includes both popular and scholarly articles. The library has three big, general databases:

• EbscoHost Academic
• ProQuest Research
• WilsonWeb

After you have chosen a database, type in your search term or terms, and click on Search or Start.

If you don't get enough results, try using different vocabulary or broader search terms.

If you get too many results, try using more specific search terms or use the Boolean operator AND to narrow the search. (Find out how to use Boolean operators (or, and, not).)

You can also limit your search to scholarly journals, also called peer reviewed journals or academic journals. These will be the journals that college professors most want to see in serious research papers.

After your result list comes up, if there is a link to the full text of the article in a database, click on that link. You can mark results in the list to be printed out, downloaded, or emailed (click on the Add button or check the box next to the results you want to save; then go to folder has items or click on print/download/email).

If there is no link to full text, you will need find out if the library subscribes to that journal or has access to it full text through one of the library's databases.

To determine if Stetson owns the full text of a journal article (in paper or on one of the databases) go to the library's home page and click on Journals List.

If a journal title is found in this list, you will see whether we have the journal in paper, microform, or in any of our databases. If the title of the journal is listed as being in one of our databases, click on the link to that database and then search for the particular volume and issue in which the article you want was published.

Also, you can browse journal titles by broad subject categories. After clicking on Journals List, click on the SUBJECT tab at the top of the page. Select a relevant category and sub-categories, and note the journals listed.

If you in an upper-division class, or need more discipline-specific journal articles, go to the library's databases, scroll down and choose a database for a specific discipline. Examples include ATLA for religious studies, MLA (Modern Language Association) for modern languages and literatures (including English); PsycInfo for psychology; SocIndex for sociology.

If you can't tell from the title of the database what it might contain, click on the ? button next to it on the databases page. That will take you to a brief description of the database.

If the title is not listed, we do not own the journal. If Stetson does not own the journal or have access to it full text through one of our databases, you may submit an Interlibrary Loan Request.

If you have problems or questions during this process, you can call the library's Reference Desk at 386-822-7188 (Reference Desk Hours.) or send an email to Ask a Librarian. A reference librarian will respond to your email during reference hours.

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