Students frequently
ask me how to find articles that are not available in the library. Here are a
few alternative sources. Make sure you have checked Google Scholar, also check
electronic professional media such as LinkedIn or Research Gate. These are sites
where authors frequently post preprints (work not yet published) as well as
published articles. Be sure you have checked all of the available databases in
your library. In psychology, one that is frequently missed is "Psychology:
A SAGE Full-Text Collection." This database has many psychology articles,
which for some reason, are typically not picked up by PsycINFO. If you are
interested in a health related topic, make sure you check CINAHL (a nursing
database) and Medline.
See if your library
has "Thoreau: Search Multiple Databases." This often pulls up
articles not found in individual databases. Similarly, the database,
"Academic Search Complete" brings up some information outside the
regular databases.
If you still cannot
find a particular paper you are looking for and if you know the authors and
title, you can request an interlibrary loan, in which the librarian will track
it down for you. As a dissertation student, you may be allowed only a certain
number of free loans, so check the rules out first.
Next time I will post an updated
blog index. Do you have an issue or a question that you would like me to
discuss in a future post? Would you like to be a guest writer? Send me your
ideas! leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu
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