You can identify an academic article by:

1. Author’s credentials
2. Published in a journal
3. Academic language
4. Includes reference list
5. More than 6 pages long

You can search our article databases (collections of journal, newspaper and magazine articles). If the article is not in the database, click on the "Look for a Copy" link.

Yes, Google does article searches! Go in through this link and find out what Google Scholar has that you can get full-text through our library.

Finding too much?

• Use AND between ideas to search for BOTH terms
• Put “Quotation Marks Around Your Search" to search for exact phrases

Finding too little?

• Use OR between your ideas to search for EITHER term
• Put * after the root of a word to look for multiple endings

For better searching, think of multiple ways to describe your topic