If a student wants to find Scholarly article for their research, Ohio University offers a way for that student a way to find it in their local library. To find what they are looking for, the student first logs onto the ArticlePlus website and type in their topic in the search box. Once typed, the student should find 'Scholarly Peer Reviews Journals' by moving the cursor to the left of that screen, and if so, it should then click on the update button. Once successful, there should be a PDF file of an article, which should motivate the student to click on the article, move the cursor to the left of that screen, and see if they either want to print the article, email the article, or save the article to their local drives. If there is no PDF, and the article instead links 'Find It With LinkSoruce', then the student will click on it to find a webpage that tells it on where the location of an article is available in other databases, finding the article to make research much easier to work with.
Finding Full Text from Citation
If a students wants to find text just from a citation, then there are a few steps needed in order to get the material needed for such a task. First, the student has to take a look at the source and identify the author, the publication date, and, most importantly, the title of the journal. Once that is secured, then that student should go to the library home page, click on Alice, click to change the source to 'Periodical Title' on the top of page, and then type in the title of the journal. There should be the paper and the electronic resource of that paper, while the electronic resource should have specific databases that the library has. Now that the source are available, the student then has to check the volume number and issue number, along with the author's name. If done right, the PDF should be there at the database. However, if the full-text is not available, the student will have to go back to the homepage and click on, above 'Periodical Title', in order, 'Services', 'Borrowing', and 'Interlibrary Loan and Document Express'. If done right, the student will then fill out a request, and once completed, the service will scan it and and send the file to students for free, completing the search for the full text.
How to get a book from OhioLINK
As a resource used to find books outside of the library at Ohio University, OhioLINK is divided up into a few steps to insure that the book will be sent to fellow students. For the resource to work, one has to first check if the book is available, or "Status Available" at the website. If the book instead has "Status Due" or "Status Due Off Campus," where students cannot check out the book at the library, then one has to move the cursor to OhioLink at the right of the screen. After the site check around the state the Ohio to see if the book is available, the student then moves the cursor to "Request" at the left of the screen once it finds the book at another library. If it works, then the student will tell the website where its' location is, log in his or her's OhioID, and select a pick-up location. Click on the Submit button, and when the screen says the request was success, saying an email will be sent when the book arrives after three business days, then the process is complete.
No comments:
Post a Comment