How do I find an article using information from the citation?
Answer
If you have the full citation for an article, there are a few ways you can go about finding it through the library's databases or other online sources. Let's use an example citation for each scenario. Our example citation is an article from a journal called Foreign Affairs:
Barfield, T. (2011). Afghanistan's ethnic puzzle: Decentralizing power before the U.S. withdrawal. Foreign Affairs, 90(5), 54-65.
1. Search the exact title of the article in quotes in the library catalog's Articles tab. The articles tab is the second tab on the main search box on the library webpage. In this case you would search " Afghanistan's ethnic puzzle: Decentralizing power before the U.S. withdrawal". This should bring up the article if we have access to it through one of our databases, then from there, you can download the article.
2. Go to the Journal Finder on the library's website, search the title of the journal (not the article title), locate the volume and issue the article is in, then locate the article by title and download.
3. Go to Google Scholar, follow these instructions to set up library links in Google Scholar, then search the exact title in quotes. Click on the link to the right of the citation to download the article.
If you check those three methods and find that the library does not have access to the full text of the article, you can try requesting the article through interlibrary loan (ILL).