Search Techniques

SECTION 2:  FINDING ARTICLES

C.  How to obtain the journal articles you identified in your search

First, check the database you are searching to see if there's a PDF or HTML link from the record to the full text.   Sometimes you might have to scroll down to the bottom of the record to see a link. If there is no link to the full text, there may be a link to Check for Full Text . Clicking on this link will take you one of two places:

1. The full text that is part of a different electronic journal collection at ODU Libraries.
2. To a record in the Journals, Magazines & Newspaper locator where you will be told we either don't own the item, that we have the item in our print collection, or it will provide a link to the full text elsewhere.

If you don't see a link from the record in the database, go directly to the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers Locator which is listed under Resources on the library Home Page. Type in the journal title (not the title of the article) in the search box.

When you find a journal in the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers Locator, if the journal is available online to ODU users, there will be a link to it. If the listing in the Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Locator indicates that ODU Library has Print Holdings of a journal, you can click on a link that tells you where that journal can be found in the library. it will be shelved either: 

• on the 2nd floor by call # in the bound stacks
• in the 2nd floor Microforms area by call # 
• on the 2nd floor current stacks alphabetically by title, if it is a current issue

Use ILL

If ODU has the journal in print format only, and you are a distance learning student and unable to come to the library, see the Interlibrary Loan option next.

Next: If ODU Library Does Not Own the Journal
(or, if you are a distance learning student who needs to use ILL for items owned by ODU)