Finding Journal Articles
Published research may be referred to as: journal articles, scholarly articles, academic articles, or peer-reviewed articles. No matter how your professor refers to it, she/he/they are tasking you with finding information by a subject expert that has passed through a peer review process before being published.
Articles are valuable because they can be published more quickly than books, and thus contain newer studies and more recent research findings.
Sifting Through Your Search Results
After entering your key words in the library homepage's search box, you may have a list of thousands of items to look at. Stop and use the tick boxes to see only Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed sources of information.
Second, scroll down the list in search of intriguing titles. Use the big blue Quick Look button to read the abstract (summary) of any article that interests you.
Keep Track of Interesting Titles
Close the Quick Look to return to your results list. To the right of the title, you will see a bookmark icon. Hover over it, and the words Save this item will appear. Click on it, and the bookmark will become blue.
On the top right of your result screen, a black bookmark will appear with a superscript number beside it. The number represents the number of bookmarked articles, and you can click on this icon to see your title list. You can export this list by printing or emailing it.
Be careful! This saved title list gets wiped clean when you close your browser, and your bookmarks will be lost.
Full-Text Online
Instantly open and read any article by clicking the Full-Text Online button. This link will take you inside of the subscription database containing the article.
If you don't see this button on a title, it means we don't have instant access. Instead, we will need two to three business days to retrieve the article for you. Simply click the Submit Interlibrary Loan button. You will receive a link or PDF in your ULeth email.
Ready to search in a database? Visit our Databases by Subject page.