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Finding
Sources
at the TCU Library
 www.library.tcu.edu
Need Library
help? Ask A Librarian!
E-mail:
reference@tcu.edu
Phone:
817-257-7117
Visit:
Librarians are available for consultation
at the Information Commons Desk (Main Floor of the TCU Library)
How to Find
an Article
To find articles in journals and
newspapers use the TCU Library article index databases.
These TCU Library Databases are located at
www.Library.tcu.edu
--> Find Articles
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DATABASE |
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Academic Search
Complete
(Journal & Magazine articles)
(75% Full Text)
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A
large, multidisciplinary database that abstracts and indexes
over 9,000 journals and includes the full text of 5,500
journals. More than 4,000 of the journals are peer-reviewed. |
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Academic OneFile
(Journal & Magazine articles)
(60%
Full Text) |
Academic OneFile is a large multidisciplinary database
indexing more than 10,000 titles, 6000 of which are full
text. |
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NewsBank Newspapers
(Newspapers)
(100% Full
Text) |
Click on Access World News – to view the
electronic editions of more than 200 local, regional,
national, and international newspapers and news magazines. |
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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay
(Newspapers)
(100% Full
text) |
NewspaperDirect
PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers
from around the world in full-color, full-page format.
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Opposing Viewpoints
(Current Event Reports)
(100% Full
text) |
Full
text pros and cons viewpoint articles, contextual topic
overviews, government and organizational statistics, court
cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest
groups, newspaper and magazine articles, primary source
documents and statistics. |
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CQ Researcher
(Current Event Reports)
(100% Full
Text) |
Provides in-depth analysis about the most current and
controversial issues of the day. |
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JSTOR
(Scholarly Journal Articles)
(100% Full
Text) |
Electronic journal collection consisting of the full text of
academic journals in many different subject areas.
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How to Find a Book
Topic
Example: Bob Dylan
Using the search box on the TCU Library web page at
www.Library.tcu.edu
Enter Bob
Dylan in the search box
Click the
gray SEARCH button.
Here you are shown more than 50 items that have the search terms
Bob Dylan.
Be sure to
notice whether the item is checked out to someone or not.
Availability: Main-Library (Items: 1, Checked out: 0)
For more information about the book, click
Full View of Record
for the detailed record.
 The
detailed record gives more information about the title, including
related subject headings.
The sixth book in the list is:
Chronicles
The call number is: ML420 .D98 A3
2004
Click the location link to see where the book is
shelved.
Search Tips!
Truncation symbols
Add
this symbol at the end of a word in a keyword search to
retrieve variant forms of your search term. Truncation
retrieves both the
singular
and the
plural
forms of a word in the same search. The most common truncation
symbol is an asterisk and less frequently, a question mark or an
exclamation mark.
Example: Teen* Returns all items with words that begin with “teen”
like teen, teens, teenage, teenagers, teenaged, etc.
Phrase
Searching
Sometimes you'll only want results that include an exact phrase. In
this case, simply put quotation marks around your search terms.
Phrase searches are particularly effective if you're searching for
proper names ("George
Washington"),
lyrics ("the
long and winding road"),
or other famous phrases ("This
was their finest hour").
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