- Database or Indexes
- Full text
- InterLibrary Loan
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If you saw the previous segment on Searching for Books you've seen my
chart before my mental map of why I think searching for information in the
library is so confusing. For most people finding articles is much more time
consuming than finding books. There's one simple reason for this, it's that
there are so many places to look.
If you're in Education you have one set of databases,
that's what we call the places you look for Journal articles. If you're in
Literature or the Humanities, a whole other set of databases. I'm going to show
you where to find your databases, for your disciplines whether you are in
Chemistry, Mathematics, or History. That answers our "Where do I look
question?". We look in databases or indexes. For
your information, there is more than Journal articles in some databases, we have
statistical information in some databases; and yet other databases have
financial information on companies. You Business majors will be interested in
Moody's, and NetAdvantage. But today we are concentrating only on those
databases that provide access to journal articles.
Sometimes the entire article exists electronically in one of these databases,
and we call that a full text article, many people
are surprised to know that once you've found one of these full text articles you
can e-mail the whole thing to yourself or perhaps a
colleague or an instructor, you can e-mail the whole article. Sometimes we have
the article electronically, but about half of our collection is in traditional
paper format as well. Sometimes we own a journal both electronically and in
paper format, and again we know this is confusing, and that's why we encourage
you to come to the reference desk or use the "Ask A Librarian" services that I
described to you earlier, in the previous section actually.
Sometimes we don't own the journal at all. You can ask for help at the Reference
Desk or through one of those "Ask A Librarian" services, for assistance in
getting an article from a journal not owned by UCF. This is a free service for
students and faculty called InterLibrary Loan,
there is a link to the request form on the homepage of the UCF Library.
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