You may already have a citation for an article from your professor's recommendation or another source. This is how you would locate the article.
Method 1
On the UC Libraries page paste your article title in the red search box. If this is an exact title enclose it in quotation marks to avoid irrelevant hits.
If the title is short and/or common, add the author's name and/or journal title.
Summon, our metasearch tool, will return results with links to online full text.
You can also use advanced Summon search.
Method 2
Method 3.
In some databases full text will follow the citation. In most instances for accessing full text you will have to look for icons that may look like this:
If you don't see those icons or links don't work, look for the ArticleLinker button or "Find Full Text at UC" link. The button or link will take you to the tool that searches for full text articles in library database. Learn how this tool works and how to make the most of it: ArticleLinker FAQ.
If the article is not available online ArticleLinker will suggest searching the library catalog for a print version or ordering the article via ILLiad (interlibrary loan):
When requesting items not available at UC, click the appropriate Interlibrary Loan form and login to your account with your UC Central Login username and password. If you have not used ILLiad before, you will be asked to fill out a profile. For a seamless experience, do this first. Once you are logged in, the article request form will be automatically populated with the article bibliographic information.
Database search tools:
Nearly all research literature databases offer the tools shown below. These tools will significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your search. To identify the search tools for any database, select the HELP link and look for terms such Boolean, proximity, truncation or advanced searching.
Boolean operators: |
AND, OR, NOT (can vary by database or search service) E.G.: recidivism AND rape (Retrieves records that contain both terms) |
Proximity operators: |
N# (Near operator), W# (Within operator) (will vary by database or search service) E.G.: urban N4 crime (Retrieves records that have both terms within 4 words of one another, e.g., urban crime, crime in urban areas |
Field qualification: |
Used to limit search of concepts to specific “fields,” e.g. title or subject heading fields. |
Truncation (wildcards): |
The following symbols are often used: * , ?, !, or # (Retrieves word derivatives of a stem or places a “wildcard” for one or two letters.) E.G.: recidivis* retrieves recidivist, recidivists or recidivism E.G.: wom?n retrieves women, woman or womyn
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