Search Tips for OneSearch: Articles

How to Find Scholarly Journal Articles

1. Run a keyword search (example: California politics) limited to Articles.

2.  On the left side of the next screen, under Refine my results, then under Resource Type, click the boxes for Peer-Reviewed Journals and Articles.  Why choose articles twice?  Since the Articles search option also will retrieve other types of publications such as reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, etc., it's necessary to choose articles twice to filter those out.

3.  Click the Apply Filters button.  

NOTE: Be sure to sign in to My Library Account so you can request articles via our Interlibrary Loan service if full text is not immediately available.  See our guide, Using Interlibrary Loan Services.

TOOLS THAT ACCOMPANY ARTICLES

When viewing articles in a list of search results, you will see these tools on the right side of each article:

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Find articles that cited the one you are looking at.

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See the articles cited by the one you are looking at.

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Email the citation along with a link to the full text of the article (when available).

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Choose a citation style to generate an automatic citation (which may contain errors).

Pin

Save the citation to your favorites.

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Toggles between the current display and one that includes the toolbar shown below which has tools for exporting to RIS or Excel, for printing, for copying a permalink, sending email, or generating an automatic citation.