Locate an Article via the Thrift Library Catalog
Use the search box in the Thrift Library catalog to search for articles across most of the library's subscription databases Note: Not all databases are integrated with our catalog. You may need to search individual databases to find what you need.
You can also click on Advanced Search to apply additional search techniques.
On the search results page, look to the left side of the page to "Refine my results" and make your selections to further limit the results.
Once you locate an item, open its record and scroll to the "View Online" section to see which database(s) provide access to it. Note that databases provide two types of search results:
1. Actual sources, which include the full-text article.
2. Surrogate records, which only provide the article's metadata such as the author's name, article and journal titles, publication information, and an abstract and/or summary. If the catalog record does provide access to the full-text of the article, follow the PASCAL Delivers instructions to request that it be emailed to you through interlibrary loan (ILL).
Select a database to access the article:
If the database record provides full-text access to the article, you should see a button or icon to view/download a PDF of it:
Locating Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Peer-reviewed publications (sometimes called scholarly, academic, or refereed) have gone through a review process by experts in the field before being published. Library databases are good places to locate peer-reviewed articles, though not all sources found in those resources are peer-reviewed.
These strategies can help you determine if an article is peer-reviewed.
Learn more about the journal your article was published in:
- If you found the article in a database:
- there may be an icon on the left side of the source description that indicates the source type (e.g., scholarly article, magazine article, scholarly book). Peer-reviewed articles are usually published in scholarly journals and sometimes in scholarly books.
- clicking on the journal title may give you more information about the journal and the journals editorial process.
- Google the title of the journal and locate the publisher's website for the journal. Then look for an editorial policy page or a page for authors. This page should also indicate whether articles go through a peer review process.
Last resort: In many databases you can limit your search to only peer-reviewed articles. (This is not ideal, since it will remove some relevant items, such as peer-reviewed book articles.)
- Look for a checkbox that limits a search to scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles (either on the first search page or on the results page),
- Search in a database or journal that only contains peer-reviewed articles. (Read about the database or journal to identify the nature of its publications.)
Search for Articles via Google Scholar:
Linking your AU account to Google Scholar will allow you to avoid pay walls and gain immediate access to resources owned by Thrift Library that appear in your search results. To configure your Google Scholar, make sure you are logged in to your AU Google account (using your AU login credentials) and click on the hamburger menu item (the three horizontal parallel lines) in the top left corner of the Google Scholar screen. Then click on "Settings" (next to the gear-like icon) and from that screen click on "Library Links". Search for Anderson University (SC) in the search box and then select it as your library.
When you conduct a search in Google Scholar, click on the link titled "Find It @ Thrift Library" to prompt the item to open within Thrift Library's databases.
See the Google Scholar "Search Help" pages to learn how to get the most out of your Thrift Library connection.
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