Finding Articles

Why Use Articles for Research?

Articles are often the best resources for research because magazines

they are current
they cover very specific subjects
they can be scholarly or popular

What Is an Index?

Article indexes are used to find articles published in magazines, journals or newspapers.

They contain article references and full text articles on specific topics.
Indexes are also known as periodical databases, abstracts, databases or full text databases.

Choosing an Index

Many article databases, abstracts and periodical indexes are available. Each database or index covers a specific group of magazines, journals and/or newspapers. For example Art Index provides article references to magazine and journal articles about art and art history. Other article databases such as EBSCOHost's Academic Search Premier are general and cover many subjects.

How do you use an Index?

TO VIEW THE DEMONSTRATION:

Just click on the button below, and the demonstration will begin by opening a new window.
The demonstration will automatically move forward.
If you wish to move quicker or slower through the demonstration, just click on the buttons on the right side of the window.
When you are finished, click on the X at the top right corner of the window

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Practice

View the Article demonstration.
Go to the Academic Search Premier index. If you are off campus, you will need to enter the same login information you use to login to the computers on campus.
Type in your topic.
Locate 1 article which has information related to your topic.
Write down the article's title, author, magazine/journal title, volume and page number for the library exercise.

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