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OVERVIEW:
First gather references to information you need.

Databases: UTA subscribes to about 500 databases
Provides literature information from a variety of fields.
Most via UTA Libraries web pages.
About 3/4 include full text articles, links to full text articles,
Catalog: list of full books, full journals library receives.
Where ever UTA Library researcher is, so is UTA library.

ROUTE:
UTA Libraries home page (http://www.uta.edu/library),
To Research Resources (http://www.uta.edu/library/research/),
To Databases (http://www3.uta.edu/library/research/).
Know name of database? alphabetic list;
Need choices? subject category.

Do not restrict yourself to full text databases. Reference might be in one database and article available in another.

1.LOCATING:
If it is found full text & you want it, you have it.

2.Check UTA Libraries' list of electronic journals, by title of journal, follow link to locate article, display &/or print it (http://library.uta.edu/JDBC/ej/ej.jsp)
3.Check Library Catalog to see if UTA Libraries has journal, then locate &/or photocopy article (http://pulse.uta.edu)
(DE students should look at:

http://library.uta.edu/users/distanceEducation/distanceEducation.jsp)

1.OBTAINING IF IT IS NOT AT UT ARLINGTON:
Don’t mind driving to a nearby library?

check WorldCat ( http://www.worldcat.org)
to see if journal is available elsewhere.
You may need to call other library to see if particular issue is there. (Texshare)

2.Have some time? Fill out an Interlibrary Loan request
& UTA library gets the article for you (https://illiad.uta.edu/illiad/)

3.Check the World Wide Web and hope you find the articles.
Good search engines include: http://www.google.com.
Good web site journal collections include:
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/, http://www.highwire.org/,
http://www.findarticle.com/,
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

REMEMBER:
Don't pay extra unless you have absolutely no choice; The Library has many services for UT Arlington students, faculty, & staff.

Menu:
Opening
Why?; Locations;
Lit Search Highlights;
Finding articles (select databases); Locate materials; Library Catalog;
Find journals (catalog; e-journal list);
Find databases;
Database features (Academic Search Premier; PsycINFO);
Database search techniques; Cited Ref Searching;
Where is it @ UTA?;
Review;
How to tell if an article is scholarly/peer reviewed
More Questions?
Saving to RefWorks
OffCampus?
Cool Word tricks to make APA formatting easier (.doc)
APA Manual quick index (.doc)

Helen Hough, Psychology Librarian, University of Texas at Arlington Library, Box 19497, Arlington, TX, 76019; hough@uta.edu
09/26/2006