To find journal articles, you will first need to find a citation and then find the journal article itself.

A citation is a statement providing information such as author, title, and publisher that is necessary to identify a particular resource (in this case, a journal article).

Citations to journal articles are found by searching research databases, not the Library catalog. Use keywords from your topic to find articles that are relevant to your project. Depending on which database you search, once you find a citation to a journal article you may be able to link to the full-text online. This can usually be done by clicking on the button.

If the database you use does not have this feature, consult How to Find Journals to find out whether Wheaton provides the article in full text from another source, or whether the journal is available in paper format at Buswell.

If you already have the citation for a journal article, you can use Citation Linker. Just fill in the citation information that you have (you don’t have to complete all the fields), and click go. You will then be told if Wheaton owns the journal in print or full-text online, or will be able to place an interlibrary loan request to get the article from another library.

You can find out more by viewing our Web tutorial.

For more information, please contact:
Reference Librarian
(630) 752-5169
Reference@wheaton.edu