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PSY 650--Research Seminar (Stoner): Find Research Articles

Finding Research Articles

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Use these search terms to narrow or broaden your search:

 

Term

Example

Result

AND

media AND bias

Narrows the search to entries containing both terms.

OR

beer OR wine

Broadens the search to entries containing either term.

NOT

bats NOT baseball

Excludes entries containing the second term.

“ ”

“social work”

Retrieves results containing the exact phrase in quotes.

?

globali?ation

Wildcard: Retrieves both globalization and globalisation.

*

rehab*

Truncation: Retrieves rehab, rehabilitate, rehabilitation.

 

Request books or articles from other libraries

If we don't have access to an article or book:

You can request an electronic copy of it (It's FREE!) from another library using Interlibrary Loan. This can usually take 1-2 days for articles or up to 1-2 weeks for books.

New Users can sign up or existing users sign in below:

If you've got a citation, how to read it

Right-Click-Open in New Tab, to enlarge. American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

If you've got a citation...

If you've already got a citation (article title, journal title, volume, issue, publication date, page number(s)), follow these steps to locate the full text of your article:

1. Click on the Journal Titles tab from the library search bar.

2.  Enter the title of the journal and then click the SEARCH button. Make sure that you are searching with the title of the journal, not the title of the article itself.

3. Locate the correct title from the results list.

4. Click the title to check if the library has the dates you need.

4. Click Access Journal to link to the article you are looking for.

5. If the journal or date you need is not available, Order the article from our interlibrary loan module: