ISF 189: Thesis Prep

• LexisNexis Academic
  International news- full text.
  
• Access World News
  Strong regional coverage, including Contra Costa Times, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury News.
  
• World News Connection
  Translated transcripts and summaries of radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, and more from nearly every country in the world.
  
• Alt-Press Watch
  Alternative, radical, and independent magazines, newspapers, and journals in North America.
  

For more possibilities, look at the Media Studies databases.

• Communication Abstracts
  Abstracts only. Scholarly articles and professional literature in communications, advertising, etc.
  
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Knowledge)
  Scholarly articles in the social sciences.
  
• Academic Search Complete
  Interdisciplinary, mostly scholarly, full-text.
  
• Project MUSE
  Scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
  

Here's a citation for an article...how do you find the whole article?

Gaultney, J. F. (2010). The Prevalence of Sleep Disorders in College Students: Impact on Academic Performance. Journal of American College Health, 59(2), 91-97. 

This citation is for an article published in 2010 in the Journal of American College Health, a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. There are several ways of determining if the article you're looking for is available at Berkeley:

Option 1: Use Google Scholar to locate a citation for the article, and UC-eLinks to retrieve the full text.

Paste or type the citation into Google and pull down the Google Scholar tool. Here's how:

Remember to set up off-campus access if you're off-campus. Here's what to do if you don't see UC-eLinks in your search results.

Note: Google Scholar does not cover all publishers, and many journals indexed by Google Scholar have partial coverage only (some years/volumes missing). Also, not all articles found through Google Scholar will be available online. If you can't find the full text of your article this way, read on for more options!

Option 2: Look up the journal title in OskiCat or Melvyl.

You can also search for the title of the journal (NOT the article title!) in either OskiCat or Melvyl.  They will tell you:

• if we subscribe to the journal you're looking for
• which years we have
• whether our subscription is print ("hard-copy") or online
• what the call number is (for print journals)
• where to find the journal online (for online journals)
• what's the latest print issue we've received (OskiCat only)

Click this link for a 45-second demo.