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SMHM 4020 E-passport: Virtual Study Abroad
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How to Locate Articles on a Topic
1. Begin by finding journals on the broad area of your topic. To find journals, begin at http://irservices.library.unt.edu and click the link at the upper right that says E-Journals.
2. Using the drop down to the left of the search box, select 'title contains all words" and do a search using words that describe your topic. Avoid typing in a lot of words. Instead, use one word such as brand, retailing, merchandising, marketing, shopping, etc. This will increase your chances of finding the greatest number of electronic journals on your topic. Also note the names of the Journals proivded in the first section of this page for the Linked Articles. These journals might also have articles for your other topics.
3. Once you have located the names of journals on your topic, search each journal title (name) in the library catalog using the Journal Title Tab at this site: http://iii.library.unt.edu
4. Searching by the Journal Title will give you the electronic databases that contain articles from your specific journals and will proivde links to those databases in the results list.
5. Using the links to the specific databases, select a database that covers the date range of interest to you.
6. You should be directed to a page that contains the listing of journal issues for the journal you selected to search in the library catalog.
7. You should also see a search box that lets you search by keyword within the journal itself.
8. Articles will contain both abstracts and fulltext in most cases. There should also be links for copying and pasting the url, exporting the citation into your citation manager for bibliographies, and for email/print/save functions.
The next section contains a visual examples of the 8 steps above.
Visual Example of Locating a Journal Article on a Topic
1. Go to http://irservices.library.unt.edu and click on E-Journals link at top right. Type in the topic and click search.
2. Browse the list of journals and choose one of interest, noting the date ranges given.
3. You can either use the links provided or search the library catalog for the journal title in order to get into the database containing the journal. If you decide to use the library catalog, to do a journal search (which you might do in the situation in which you are given a specific journal title to locate), here are the visuals:
for the library catalog go to http://iii.library.unt.edu and select the Journal Title tab:
4. Type in the journal's title and click submit:
5. Choose the database that contains the desired years for the journal. In this example, we will select the ABI/Inform database despite the fact that the articles are only up to one year ago:
6. Click on ABI/Inform in this example and you will be taken to a page for the specific journal title, Journal of Product and Brand Management. You can then do a keyword search within the journal, in this case on the word, apparel. In this example, the full text limit was selected.
Alternatively, if you need a specific journal issue, you can browse the journals for that issue.
7. Once you select an article from the results list, the email, cite and export links become active:
Citing and Linking Documents: DOIs and Permanent URLs
You may need to refer to a document by its Digital Object Identifier or you might see a DOI listed as part of the citation for an article you need. Normally, you can access the article by copying and pasting the DOI directly into the address bar of your browser. However, sometimes the DOI does not work properly. If you encounter this situation, use the DOI Resolver located at: http://dx.doi.org/ Using the resolver, you can copy and paste the nonworking DOI into the search box and get a working DOI. All DOIs normally begin with a number. They do not normally have "http://" at the beginning. Here is an example of a DOI:
A DOI is also called a permanent url in this example. However, some databases, such as ABI/Inform use the term permanent url to indicate a link that is NOT a DOI but instead is a link within the ABI/Inform database. The DOI resolver will not work for this type of permanent url. Here is a visual example of a permanent url from ABI/Inform:
Use the copy link button to copy and paste this link into your browser or to provide a link in a citation to the article.
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