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Access to full text articles
Try one of these multidisciplinary databases
Click to access ProQuest Research Library Database
Searches a select 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers
Or choose an in-depth
subject database
(e.g. Education Abstracts, Applied Science Abstracts)
Find a database by name in the Databases A-Z List
Find a journal by title or subject through (External) Journal Finder
Get the full text of an article
Once you’ve found an article in a database,
get the full text
(often linked from the database).
Find a journal, magazine, or newspaper by its title
If you need a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper, check (External)
Journal Finder
to see whether WMU Libraries has it.
Request articles our library doesn’t own
If WMU Libraries doesn’t have an article you need, and
you are a current student, faculty or staff member, you can borrow it through
interlibrary loan
.
Find articles on course reserves
Use
Course Reserves
to find articles on reserve for a specific course.
Identify popular, trade and scholarly articles
What kind of article do you need? Learn the differences between popular magazines, trade journals and scholarly journals with this
handy guide
or (External)
watch a video
.
Cite articles in a paper and bibliography
Be sure to use the citation style your professor requires. See the guide to
Citing Sources
for links and examples for all the major citation styles.
Connect to library electronic resources
For help connecting to our electronic resources, including information on the
wireless, connecting from off campus, creating a stable URL or troubleshooting,
see our guide to
Connecting to library electronic resources
.
Link to an article using course software, e-mail, web
pages, etc.
You can
create a static URL
to link to an article
that will require Bronco NetID sign-in from off campus.
Learn more about finding articles
Watch
ResearchPath
’s
Module 4 video for a
step-by-step guide to finding articles.