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Coverage: 1915 - present
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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.
