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The Research Process

Defining Research Needs

Developing a Research Strategy

Conducting the Search
Keep a Working Bibliography
Find Books
Find Articles
Find Call Numbers
Find Web Sites

Evaluating Resources

Using Resources

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How to Find Articles


Article Databases

Finding an article is a little more complicated than finding a book. Although titles of journals and magazines are included in BANC, the titles of articles are not. That means that you can use BANC to find out that Hutchins Library subscribes to Newsweek, but you cannot use the catalog to find out what articles are in each issue.

To find articles, you must use an article database (also known as a periodical index).

In this section, you will learn:

  • what an article database is,
  • what information you can find in a database,
  • how to choose a database from those that Hutchins Library subscribes to,
  • how to search the Academic Search Premier database to find a list of articles, and
  • how to find an article listed in a database.