I Just Need Some Articles!

1. Choose a periodical index based on the type of article you need:

Academic Search Complete
(choose "Full Text" under "Limit your results" to ensure that you will get full text articles)

• For magazine articles

this index includes many popular, hobby, and news titles such as Time, Newsweek, Popular Science, and People.
• For scholarly or peer-reviewed journals

choose "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under "Limit your results" to get results from academic publications such as Science, Journal of the American Medical Association, or Journal of Marriage & Family.
LexisNexis News (entirely full text)
• For newspaper articles

includes articles from regional, national, and international newspapers and the Associated Press.
• For transcripts

includes radio, television, and political transcripts
2. Find your articles:
• Enter your topic in the index's search box (be sure to enter only the key term(s) or phrase(s) that describe your search)
• View your results and click on the title or "full text" link to view individual articles
3. E-mail, save, or print your articles:
• In Academic Search Complete, click on "add" to add articles to your folder. Then click on "view folder" or "folder has items" to email, print, or save.
• In LexisNexis News, click on the "Print" or "Email" tabs at the top of the screen to print or email single or multiple articles.

(Our thanks to the West Virginia University Libraries for the concept of this page.)