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You run across article suggestions all the time when you are doing research - articles that professors recommend to you, articles cited in bibliographies and works cited lists, and more.  Here's how to find the text of those articles.

There are two things that you need to track down the text:  the name of the journal and the volume/year when your article was published.

Here's how:

From the library homepage choose the OSU Library catalog from the Quicklinks:

Do a title search for the journal title.  Click the radio button that says Journal/Magazine/Newspaper title:

I did a search for the Journal of Business Communication.

If we have the journal, you will get a record that looks like this:

At the top of the box, you will see links if we have a digital or online subscription.  In this case, we have two.  One extends all the way back to 1963, and is available through the most recent issue.  The other runs from 2004-2007.

At the bottom, you will see if we have print (hardcopy) holdings.  In this case, we have one set running from 1986-1997, and then another from 2003-2007.

Get an online copy

Click the link that includes the volume/year you want.  At this point, you will usually browse to the volume or year you want.  You may also get the option to search for your article.  We get online journals from a lot of different places, so they will look different when you click through to them -- just look for an "archive," "back issues" or something like that to browse to the one you want.

In this case, we have online issues available through EBSCOhost.  To get these, you would browse to the year you want:

If we click the other link, the Sage link, we would "select an issue from the archive."

If you are off-campus you may have to enter your ONID information to access these subscription-only journals.

How to get a print copy

If we do not have an online subcription, double-check to make sure that OSU has the volume/year you need.  Then write down the call number and find the journal like you would if you were looking for a book.

The most recent issues of journals are kept in a current journal area in the middle of each floor, so check there too.  If you have any trouble finding a print journal that should be there, ask at the reference desk.

If you are on a branch campus, or if you are an e-campus student, and you live more than 30 miles away from Valley, you may request that articles from print journals be delivered to you.

From the library catalog again, when you are at the journal you want, click the Request button on the top of the page:

This will bring up a form, the bottom half of the form allows you to request a specific article.  Choose Extended Campus as your pickup location.

Good luck!

Don't let Google Scholar lead you astray!

Google Scholar is a great place to scan across a lot of sources at once, but if it doesn't know that you have rights to access online articles and other sources from a library, it might send you to a page like this - which asks you to pay for the article you want:

The journal in this example is in the OSU Libraries' collection, and OSU students, staff and faculty have the right to access it (and articles in lots of other journals) from any computer with an Internet connection.  With a few adjustments to your preferences, you can tell Google Scholar to point you to the resources that the library provides for the OSU community.

Start your search in Google Scholar (google.scholar.com).  A typical results screen looks like this one.  The first result on this list is the one that led to the pay-per-view screen example above.

To find out which of your results are available from the OSU Libraries, go to the Scholar Preferences link, just to the right of the search box:

In the middle of the Scholar Preferences page, there is a section called Library Links.  Students, faculty and staff at OSU should search for Oregon State because they can access content from OSU online.

Click the boxes next to both OSU options:  Find it at OSU, and Get This Item at OSU.

Now, when you do a search, your result list will look like this.  Notice the new links to the right of each title:

There are also some new options like Get This Item at OSU, or Get This in Print at OSU in the list of links at the bottom of each entry on the result list.

Clicking on these new links will now take you to the library's collections.  If you are in the library, or at an IP address recognized as an OSU address, this process will be immediate.  If you are not on campus, you will need to prove that you have access to the sources the library has paid for.  You do this by entering your ONID login and password at this screen:

This process works well, but it doesn't work perfectly.  If there is an article you want, and you can't get it this way, ask a librarian how you can get it.

Good luck!  If you have questions, contact me or leave a comment.