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Find/Identify Articles:

  • Locate electronic resources by name/keyword. Look for the database name and read the description of what it covers. This helps you find databases appropriate for your subject. For example, if you are searching for articles about the works of Kentucky writer Bobbie Ann Mason, look for literature in the databases search, then look for Bobbie Ann Mason and/or her works in the database(s) that look useful for this type of search.
     
  • Locate electronic resources by subject. Look for articles indexed (i.e. subject terms added to help you locate) in the databases. See Research Guide to find recommended databases by subject. Use Get Text at UK to see if the full-text of the article is available.

Get Articles (by  journal, magazine or newspaper name):

Use Databases to Find and Get Articles Right Away

Many databases are available to help you identify journal, magazine and newspaper articles. You can search in these databases using keywords and subjects (also called descriptors) to identify articles that will be useful for your research. You can also use these databases to clearly identify and get the article you want if you already know something specific about it: the title or author, for example.

Get Text @ UK

Many of these databases provide the full-text of some of the articles they identify. In many cases, this icon will appear:

UK Full-Text Options

It will provide links to copies of the articles or journals cited in the databases. The Get Text icon also provides a link to the University of Kentucky Libraries' catalog, InfoKat, which lists, by the title of the journal, magazine or newspaper, all of the publications we have available in paper.

If you know the journal that contains the article you want, you can find out if we have electronic access to that journal by searching the E-Journals Database, which lists, by the title of the journal, magazine or newspaper, the publications for which we provide electronic full-text of articles. Note that many of these electronic titles have limits to the dates for which they can provide the full-text.