Finding Articles 

Start your article searching with these databases. They each cover a wide variety of subjects. Mouse over the database names for a description.

You may want to start with EBSCO's Academic Search Complete, the world's largest multi-disciplinary article database with articles from 8,200+ publications; about 50% of articles are full-text.

Most databases will also create a citation for you. For the EBSCO databases, click the icons (Print, Email, Save) then choose the citation style (MLA, APA, etc.)

What about Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is essentially a large listing of articles, with some duplication. A very small percentage of articles are full-text in Google Scholar itself. (Those would come from free journal Web sites.)

Here's the catch: Google Scholar will easily link you to full-text articles in the ACC Library's databases if you are using an ACC campus computer to search. (Google Scholar uses IP address based authentication to know which databases are available to the searcher.)

After you do a search with your ACC computer and review the citations, click the link "Full-Text @ ACC," and then "Article" on the next screen. This should link you into an ACC Library database with full-text access. The University of Alabama's Lister Library has created a narrated tutorial that is similiar to what you'd see using Google Scholar at ACC. See:
https://www.uab.edu/lister/research/nursing/tutorials/google_scholar_tutorial.htm

If you search for articles from off campus using Google Scholar, first go to the Scholar Preferences link and add "Adirondack Community College" (or,  SUNY Plattsburgh if you're a student there) under the Library Links option.

Then, when you click a full-text link, log on with your student username/password as usual to link to the library databases.

An advantage to Google Scholar is that it searches with a looser "keyword" method, not subject headings. So, if you have tried other databases with little success and have consulted with a librarian for search tips, Google Scholar could be useful for those "needle in a haystack" topics.

See the Google Scholar About pages for more details. At any point in your search, contact an ACC librarian for search pointers and to ask if an article is available full-text or through interlibrary-loan.

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These databases offer articles from several newspapers, magazines and journals. Mouse over them for a description.