Best Bets for Finding Scholarly Articles
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for both science and social science research articles (scholarly).
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for finding articles in the sciences, social science and the humanities. Perfect if you are needing more interdisciplinary research for your topic (scholarly).
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowThis resource covers nearly every area of academic study, so it's useful for finding articles in all the subject areas, or interdisciplinary articles.
Contains both scholarly and popular sources, so be sure to just limit to "scholarly, peer-reviewed". - JSTOR. Archival Journals This link opens in a new windowThis resource provides access to more than 10 million scholarly journal articles and book chapters in 75 subject areas. Excellent to use if you need a social science or humanities perspective on your topic.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse to find interdisciplinary articles from academic publishers, professional societies, institutional and preprint repositories posted on the web. Use the "Find @ Le Moyne Library" links in the search results as well as other links provided by the search engine to locate the full-text of articles. Contains full-text and abstracts of scholarly articles.
How to Use
How to Get the Full Text of Articles
1. Click on any link in your abstract that says "Full Text" to see if it will bring you to the full article. Also try links like "Locate Full Text at Library" or "Le Moyne Full Text".
2. Check the Journal Finder to see if the library subscribes to that e-journal. If we do, simply click through to the correct issue and then the correct article. (Look at your citation to find this information).
3. If neither of those two options gets you full text, use interlibrary loan to request the article. Depending on your article, you could receive it via email (at the address you specify) in a few hours or a few days—but it's usually quick!
4. You can always email Kari at zheheikm@lemoyne.edu and ask for help with getting full text!