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26 Steps to Infromation Fluency

Step 20: Finding Journals & Document Delivery

Sometimes you discover the articles you want in a bibliography at the end of a book, book chapter, or another article. This is a perfectly legitimate way to do research. To get a copy of these articles you need to find the journals in which the articles appear. Use the following process to check the availability of a journal.

  1. Before you get started review the anatomy of a citation.
  2. Open or print this Microsoft Word document that contains a bibliography of 6 articles.
  3. Print these instructions.
  4. Review the three steps/methods for obtaining an article from a bibliography described in the instructions.
  5. Go to the library's homepage at http://www.xavier.edu/library/
  6. Under the Journals tab, in the Quick Links section, click JOURNALS @ XU icon.
  7. To find each article, type the name of the journal the article was published in.
  8. After each of the 6 citations in this bibliography type the method you had to use (Print/Microform, Full-Text, or Document Delivery) to obtain a copy of the articles in the bibliography. This is where you follow the 3-step procedure outlined in the instructions above.
  9. Be sure to check the dates of your article against the dates of available full-text.
  10. Follow the links all the way to the full-text (if available) of the article.
  11. After you are finished save the Word document to your computer desktop under a new name .
  12. Create a new entry in your Blackboard e-portfolio.
  13. Upload the Word document into your new Blackboard e-portfolio entry.
  14. If you need help with e-portfolio refer to these instructions.

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