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Access to full text articles
Try one of these multidisciplinary databases
Click to access ProQuest Research Library Database
Searches a select 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers
Or choose an in-depth
subject database
(e.g. Education Abstracts, Applied Science Abstracts)
Find a database by name in the Databases A-Z List
Find a journal by title or subject through (External) Journal Finder
Get article full text
Once you've found an article in a database,
get the full text
(often linked from the database).
Find a journal, magazine, or newspaper by its title
If you need a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper, check (External)
Journal Finder
to see whether WMU Libraries has it.
Request articles through interlibrary loan
If WMU Libraries doesn't have an article you need, and you are a current student, faculty or staff member, you can borrow it through interlibrary loan.
More information and sign in
.
Find articles on course reserves
Use
Course Reserves
to find articles on reserve for a specific course (consult
User Guides
for
help).
Identify popular, trade and scholarly articles
What kind of article do you need? Learn the differences between popular magazines, trade journals and scholarly journals with this
handy guide
or (External)
watch a video
.
Cite articles in a paper and bibliography
Be sure to use the citation style your professor requires. See
Guide to Writing Styles
for links and examples for all the major citation styles.
Connect from off campus
If you're using a computer that isn't at WMU, you'll need to sign in to use most of our databases, indexes, e-journals and e-books.
More information
.
Link to an article using course software, e-mail, web pages, etc.
You can
create a URL
to link to an article, but it will require Bronco NetID sign-in from off campus.
Learn more about finding articles
Use
ResearchPath's
Module 4 as a step-by-step guide to finding articles.