Library Skills Tutorial

Using Online Indexes to Find Articles

If the full text of the article is available through the online index, it can be printed directly or e-mailed. If it is not available, you will have to locate it in print. The information that you need in order to locate the article is given in the article record.

To find the article, the minimum information you need will be:

• Journal title
• Volume, issue, and date
• Starting page number

In this record, all this information will be found in the Source field:

Source: Journal of Social Psychology; Oct2002, Vol. 142 Issue 5, p670, 3p

It is also useful to have the name of the author(s) and the title of the article. All this information:

• Author(s)
• Article title
• Journal title
• Volume and issue number
• Publication date
• Page numbers

will be necessary when you prepare your list of references for a research paper.

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