Contents:

Essential Information About Articles, Full Text and Databases
How to Find an Article When You Have a Topic or Subject
How to Find an Article When You Have a Citation

How to Find an Article When You Have Only "Part" of a Citation

 

See:

Search Strategies
Access to ORU Electronic Resources
Finding Periodicals

1. Go to the ORU Database List.

2. Select a relevant subject and/or multidisciplinary database.

3. In the database(s) use key concepts to search your topic or subject.

4. Once you find an article:
Click the HTML, PDF, Linked Full text or similar option.
    or
Click the Check for Full Text link to see if it is available elsewhere in the Library (i.e., in another database, hard-copy in the Library, microform).
— Links to the Oral Roberts University Catalog are for articles that may be available in-house. Follow the links to the full catalog record for the periodical and look for the date needed. Record or print publication information so you know the format (microform, CD-ROM, hard-copy) and location of the periodical. See: Finding Periodicals in the ORU Library.
—If the article is in another database, click the Article link or other available link. (This may be a link to the journal or database.)

If full text is NOT available in the ORU library, you may request the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) using the link within the database or complete the online ILL form, and then submit it. (Note: There is usually a small fee for ILL materials.)

1. Go to the ORU Journals List and do a Title search for the periodical title (not the article title).

2) If you find the periodical title in the Journals List, identify if the date you need is available. For example, the publication Astronomy is available in the Library and in several databases. 3. Click a link in the Journals List, and follow the links to access the date/issue you need and browse to find the article title. In the online article citation, click the HTML, PDF or similar full text link.

Academic Search Premier (or other database name) = online full text availability for the dates listed. Oral Roberts University Library Catalog = in-house availability (hard-copy, microform, CD-ROM). For dates and formats click the Oral Roberts University Library Catalog link and go to the full record to view the holdings.

If you have only the journal name and a publication date for an article, it may be possible to use the Journals List to find the journal, access the publication date, and then browse the issue for the article you need.

What if you have only an article title and the author(s)?
What if you have only the article title?
Or, what if you have only an author but know what the articles is about?

Since there are almost 90 databases and more than 28,000 periodical titles available at ORU, to find exactly what you need when you do not have a complete citation could be an endless task that would require searching many databases or targeted searches in specific periodical titles. Even the completion of numerous searches in multiple databases is not assurance that you have searched all the possibilities. Therefore, for a comprehensive search of all ORU's resources, use Central Search, ORU's meta-database.

In Central Search:

• Use appropriate fields (author, keyword, title, etc.) and enter as much information as you know.
• To search an exact title, search the text as a phrase and use quotation marks around the text.
• Follow the link(s) to the full text, if available.

Try a search! Access Central Search Type "good morning Holy Spirit" in the text area. (include the quotation marks) Change Keyword to Title. Check the box to Select All. Click search. From the result click the category Oral Roberts University, which is the library catalog. Click the title for the full record.