We get a number of reference inquiries from students asking how to locate specific articles assigned to them through Leatherby Libraries. We are happy to help them use our Journal Finder tool to locate such articles that are available in full text through the library’s online databases.
Below are the directions we provide students, which you are welcome to incorporate into your assignments or pass along directly to your students. Please feel free to adjust these instructions as necessary for your specific purposes and know that I am available to help you draft instructions involving library research strategies.
As always, the librarians at Leatherby are very happy to work with your students on an individual basis. I just wanted to take this opportunity to share some search tips that may apply to the research assignments your students are conducting.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss specific library research assignments for your class, please don’t hesitate to contact me: aknight@chap
-Annie
Directions for Locating Specific Articles (Using the Library’s Journal Finder Tool):
Use the Journal Finder search tool located on the Leatherby Libraries homepage to locate specific articles and to find out if the library subscribes to a particular periodical ((journal, magazine, newspaper, trade publication, etc.). Please follow the steps below to use the Journal Finder:
1. Begin at the Leatherby Libraries homepage, www.chapman.edu/library, and locate the Journal Finder search box in the center of the page.
2. In the Journal Finder search box type the title of the journal or periodical (e.g., Harvard Business Review) where the article you are looking for is published. Note: Do not type the title of the article into this search box. You first need to find out if the library subscribes to the particular journal or periodical where the article you are trying to access is published.
3. Click Search.
4. The next page will tell you if full text articles from the journal are available through one or more of the library’s online databases.
5. Note the date range of availability listed next to each database.
6. Click on the link for one of the databases with coverage that corresponds with the publication date of the article you want to access.
7. Log into the database with your Brandman username and password (the same you use to log into Blackboard).
8. Once inside the database, look for an option to search within the journal or periodical.
9. Enter the title of the article into the search box provided (exclude any punctuation marks or special characters that can throw off the search engine).
10. Click the Search button or hit ENTER on your computer keyboard.
11. Click the PDF or another full text linking option provided (e.g., “Check for Full Text” or “HTML”).
12. Once you access the full text of the article, save it to your computer. You may also decide to print a copy of the article or email it to yourself.
If you would like assistance, please feel free to contact your librarians Annie Knight at aknight@chapman.edu / (714) 532-7736 or Wenling Tseng at tseng@chapman.edu / (714) 532-7720, M-F. For weekend reference assistance, please contact the Leatherby Libraries Reference Desk at libweb@chapman.edu / (714) 532-7714.
NOTE: If the Library does not provide access to the article, you may order the article through Interlibrary Loan using your ILLiad account. If you have not registered for an ILLiad account, please visit http://www1.chapman.edu/library/centers/borrowing.html for more information. In rare cases, a journal may only be available in print (indicated by “Chapman University Print Holdings”). In this case, you can request a physical copy of the article be mailed to your home by filling out an article request through your ILLiad borrowing account.
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