1. Finding full text journal articles.

• Select Full Text Articles from the Library Homepage.
• From the GENERAL category select Academic Search Premier

  The following table illustrates the operation of Boolean terms:

And	Or	Not
Each result contains all search terms.	Each result contains at least one search term.	Results do not contain the specified terms.
The search obesity   and  children   finds items that contain both  obesity  and children.	The search obesity  or overweight  finds items that contain either  obesity  or items that contain overweight.	The search antibiotics  not human finds items that contain antibiotics  but do not contain the word human.

Examples:

day care centers AND health

1. click in the Full Text box (Under: Refine search) to select fulltext articles.
2. Use the peer reviewed carefully, it does limit the results a great deal.
3. Click on SEARCH
4. Select one article to look at. Select the FULL TEXT icon under the brief description of the article you want to look at.


Author(s):__________________________________________________________________________________

Title of article:_______________________________________________________________________________

Journal title:_________________________________________________________________________________

volume no.________________ date of issue____________________ article pages______________________

What can you do besides read this on your screen?

• PRINTING: If your article is HTML Full Text, you can print it if you click on the PRINT button at the top of the screen.
• PRINTING: If your article is a PDF Full Text, be sure to print by clicking on the image of a printer at the top of the screen in Acrobat Reader. Don't use the PRINT button or pull down menu File / Print.
• Email the article to yourself or a friend: Click on email at the top of the screen. Check the option box for citation and any available full text; type in the email address; click on the submit button. 
• Save the article to your disk Click on Save at the top of the screen.  Check the option box for display to save; click on the submit button.  select File/Save as and use .txt as the extension.
• To use these online full text resources over the internet from a home computer, you need to have a current, valid library card. From home, start at the library homepage: http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  Then select "Full Text Articles" from the library homepage. When you select a database you will be asked to key in your 14 digit bar code number.

2. ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor

• Select Full Text Articles from the Library Homepage
• From the News category select ProQuest Newspapers
• Proceed to search in the same manner as with Academic Search Premier (above)
  

Title of article:_______________________________________________________________________________

Journal title:_________________________________________________________________________________

volume no.________________ date of issue____________________ article pages______________________

3. Using the Google Search Engine at: www.google.com to find government research

Why use Google?

• Google automatically searches words as if the word AND was between them
• You can use quotes and minus signs to help your searches "word word" double quotes around a phrase
  "George W. Bush" double quotes around a name

  Quotes create a phrase which will be retrieved exactly in the order you typed.

  
  Using quotes: "day care centers"

  "food allergies" preschool

  
  

  Limit your search to a governement agency:

  In this case only gov sites
  Example:
  "day care centers" California site:gov
  or,
  Autism and "day care centers"

   

   

  Now go to Google.com and type in your search words
  Write the information here for a good site on your topic:

Author(s):__________________________________________________________________________________

Title of website:_______________________________________________________________________________

Web Address:_________________________________________________________________________________

Todays date:____________________

4. Access to free, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles on the Web.

Open access to a growing collection of fee peer-reviewed scholarly research journal articles is growing on the Web.

Filtering out non-scholarly results for your search is best accomplished by learning to:

1. Use specific Web access sites that are designed for retrieval of scholarly, peerreviewed journal articles.
2. Use limits in your search to filter out or exclude material that is not likely to meet your criteria.

Sample Web sites that are designed to help you find scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles include:

PubMed at http://www.pubmed.gov
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Go to www.pubmed.gov

Clicking on the LIMITS button at the top of the PubMed search page allows you to make a selection which will limit the results to “free full text.”

March 31, 2008 ||Johanna Bowen || Return to the library homepage