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I Need 3 Articles...Fast!

Please note: this outline is intended to help those working on papers at the undergraduate level. If you are an undergraduate with a more advanced research project or a graduate student with a specialized topic, please ask at the Reference Desk for assistance with more advanced searches.

Finding full-text articles quickly:

The WVU Libraries provide WVU students, staff, and faculty:

searchable databases of full-text articles (electronic versions of content originally in print)

from your own place
-- access from anywhere you have Internet access and a web browser

at your own pace
-- available 24-7 -- whenever you need it

Follow these 3 steps...

(1) Choose a database

Select one of the databases below
From off-campus, you will need to log on

Databases

Academic Search Premier

(EBSCOHost)
(not entirely full text -but you can limit your search to full text
by selecting "Full Text Only" at the search screen)

For magazine articles
these databases include popular titles such as Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, and People

For peer reviewed journals
click on the option "Peer Reviewed" before performing your search to limit your search to scholarly titles such as American Journal of Botany and Journal of Popular Culture

Lexis-Nexis

(entirely full-text)

For newspaper articles
includes titles like WVU's own Daily Athenaeum, New York Times, and thousands of articles from the Associated Press wires

For transcripts
includes radio, television, and political transcripts

(2) Find your articles

Once you have selected a database and are connected to it, enter your topic in the search box

View the results list

Click on the title or the "full-text" link to read the article

(3) Read and save your articles

While reading the article you may

Print it

Save it to a disk or to your computer

Email it to yourself