Finding Articles
To locate articles that available in full text in the database use the 360 Link to Fulltext icon to see if the library has it in print or online from another source.
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Academic Search Premier
Includes articles and film reviews in popular magazines and scholarly journals.
Coverage Dates: 1975 - present -
MLA International Bibliography
Includes books, articles in books, and scholarly journals.
Coverage Dates: 1926 - present -
LexisNexis Academic
Articles and reviews in U.S. and international newspapers
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Fine Arts and Music Collection
Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Coverage Dates: 1980
Finding Published Reviews
Start with:
Academic Search Premier for reviews in magazines and journals.
- Limit by "book review." Show Me
LexisNexis Academic for reviews in newspapers and transcripts of radio and tv broadcasts.
- Check Search within US and World Publications" and "TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts." Search. Then find "Result Groups: Subjects: Book Reviews. Show Me
If you don't find reviews in the databases, use an index* that covers the date your film first appeared:
- Book Review Digest, 1905-present (4th floor) Z1219 .B6
- Book Review Index, 1965-present. (4th floor) Z1219 .B62
- Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-present. AI3.R4 (6th floor).
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 (6th floor) AI3 .C6521.
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals. 1886-1974 (6th floor) Z1035 .A1 C64.
- Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities V.1-30, 1960-1989 (4th floor) AI3 .I49.
*You'll find a citation to the review, not the review itself Use the OSU Libraries Catalog to see if we have the magazine or newspaper with the review.
For help using indexes, click on Read More below.
Read moreFinding Books
Use online catalogs to find books (as well as journals, multimedia, maps, and other library materials) at OSU & elsewhere.
1. Start with OSU Libraries Catalog: searches for books located at Valley Library and OSU's other libraries.
2. Next try Summit Catalog: searches our partner libraries in Oregon & Washington (indicated as Held by: Summit). Also searches other library holdings throughout the world (indicated as Held by: WorldCat Libraries). If OSU does not have the item and it is located in a Summit library, you may request it be delivered to OSU (takes about 3 business days).
3. Finally, If Summit doesn't have it we'll find a library that does-just click the Request from Interlibrary Loan button.
Search tip: Summit lets you access some journal articles. But mostly you will need to find these in databases.
Other Options: Google Book Search searches within indexes and texts of books. How much of the book you see depends on the copyright status, and on how much of their copyrighted work that authors and publishers who participate in the program will allow. For many items you can click on "Find this book in a library" to see if OSU owns a copy.This is not a complete catalog, so please check OSU and Summit catalogs, too.
Full-Text Journal Collections
The OSU Libraries subscribe to many, many, many more e-journals than those included in the following collections. These collections are particularly strong in the humanities, however:
You can search Project Muse and JSTOR simultaneously from the Project Muse platform: Show me
Quoting and Citing Sources: MLA Style
"The accuracy of quotations in research writing is extremely important. They must reproduce the original sources exactly. . . . You must construct a clear grammatically correct sentence that allows you to introduce or incorporate a quotation with complete accuracy" (Gibaldi 109).
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. NY: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
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Click here for examples of parenthetical citations in short and long quotations.
For more information on quoting and citing sources, see
- Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online
- Online Writing Lab: OWL at Purdue
- Rutgers University Libraries: How to Avoid Plagiarism (video)
Citation Machine : an online bibliography maker that formats citations in MLA and other styles.
See Keeping Current with Research for information about search alerts, RSS feeds, bibliography manager, and more.
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