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Finding Articles
Remember: In order to access these databases from off-campus, you need to sign in first with your student ID and library PIN.
Academic Search Elite Includes some full text
A great place to start to search for magazine and journal articles on almost all topics. Includes includes popular magazine and scholarly journal articles.
Tip: Check "peer reviewed" box to limit your search to scholarly journals
Social Sciences Full Text Includes some full text
Covers concepts, theories, and methodologies in all areas of the social sciences. Subjects covered include anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies. Features full text articles, page images, abstracts, and indexing of the most important English-language journals covering the social sciences.
Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles and books in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Covers the history, life and culture of native North Americans. Indexes works from the 16th century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, government documents, historical and ethnographic books, and dissertations.
Do we have the journal? : Locating specific articles
If you already have information about a specific article (author, title, journal title, volume, etc.), you need to find out where the journal is available.
Electronic Journals
Use this option to find out if a journal is available electronically.
Tip: Be sure to search for the journal title, not the article title.
Journal Title Search in online catalog
Use to find if the ASU Libraries has a print copy of the journal you are looking for.
Tip: Be sure to search for the journal title, not the article title.
Getting articles not available at ASU
The library can get you a copy of an article that is not available electronically or in print through the Interlibrary Loan service. This service is free, and takes between one and three days for your article to arrive.
Finding books in the online catalog
Search the online catalog to find information about books, journals (but not articles), newspapers, microforms sets, reference works, sound recordings, videos, government documents and Special Collections materials, and other items the library owns.
Tip: Books can be very helpful to provide background information for your topic, even if your assignment requires you to use journal articles.
The easiest way to start searching for materials in in the online catalog is to do a keyword search. Remember to combine your keywords with appropriate connectors (and, or, not), and to search for alternate endings by truncating with an asterisk (*).
hopi and art
You can then examine the records to see if there are specific subject headings that would lead you to other relevant items in the catalog.
Indians of North America
Be sure to note where the book is located (such as HAYDEN Stacks), as well as the call number. You'll need these to find the book on the shelf in the library.
Off Campus Access
Most of the library resources you will need to use will require you to sign in for off campus access. You will do this using your last name, your student ID #, and a library PIN.
Setting your PIN
- From the ASU Libraries web page (http://www.asu.edu/lib) choose the "My Account" link located on the left side of the screen.
- Enter your name and university ID number in the appropriate boxes, and a PIN. Then click on "Display Record for Person named Above."
- The system will then prompt you to validate your PIN choice by giving you two boxes in which to enter your new PIN. Be sure to enter the same PIN twice. You can use any string of characters up to 30 characters long, but it is best to pick something unique that you will remember. The PIN is encrypted so that you can safely view your library record.
Logging in for off campus access
Whenever you use an index or database to search for a journal article, or when you need to access and electronic/online journal, you will be prompted to sign in with your PIN.
If you have any difficulty with logging in (especially if you get an error message saying "Invalid PIN") please call 480-965-3605 and the library's circulation department help you.
Citing your sources
It is important to cite the resources you use properly and consistently. There are many different types of citation styles, but the goal of each citation is to list the important information which allows other researchers to locate the original article.
Refworks lets you keep track of all of your references, cite your sources, and format your bibliographies automatically! It's easy to use and will save you lots of time.
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