Topic 12: Article Searching

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You might not come to CLC knowing ahead of time what resource you want to use. Here are some ideas for when you know the format you need your information in:

Full Text Article Searching
Article searching (Journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, etc.) in CLC can be limited to articles in full text- articles you can read onscreen. Here's what to choose, with links to teach you how to do the searching.

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ProQuest Psychology Database includes full text articles particularly in that subject. for more help, see the Proquest Psychology Journals page on this wiki

OCLC FirstSearch's official list of what journals, magazines, and newspapers are offered in each of its databases (choose a database, like ATLA Religion, from the menu)

OCLC FirstSearch's official title finder (type in the name of a magazine, journal, or newspaper, to see if it's in OCLC FirstSearch, and what database to use to see article information for that publication)

Questia's official list of what journals are offered in Questia 

If you're looking for Full Text articles but you aren't finding what you want in these sources, have a look at Topic 13

Trouble with access? Please send comments or questions to me

Article Searching (citations only)
Article searching (Journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, etc.) in NexLearn usually covers article citations; information about the article, whether or not you can read the whole article onscreen. Here's what to choose, with links to teach you how to do the searching.

More help on this topic:

ProQuest Psychology Database includes articles citations, particularly in that subject. for more help, see the Proquest Psychology Journals page on this wiki

ATLA Religionjournal titles

ATLAS journal titles

ATLA Religion and ATLAS database &amp;topicID=33 information page from Ebsco

Old Testament Abstracts (&amp;topicID=121 OTA) information page from Ebsco (with links to title list)

New Testament Abstracts (&amp;topicID=180 NTA) information page from Ebsco (with links to title list)

OCLC FirstSearch's official list of what journals, magazines, and newspapers are offered in each of its databases (choose a database, like ATLA Religion, from the menu)

OCLC FirstSearch's official title finder (type in the name of a magazine, journal, or newspaper, to see if it's in OCLC FirstSearch, and what database to use to see article information for that publication)

Questia's official list of what journals are offered in Questia 

If you're looking for articles but you aren't finding what you want in these sources, have a look at Topic 13

Trouble with access? Please send comments or questions to me