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Electronic Articles

Go to the Amridge Online Library (http://libsys.uah.edu/amridgeuniversity)
From the top menu bar, click on E-Articles.

Electronic article databases are divided into six categories:

Comprehensive Sources
Business/Finance
Education
Social Sciences/Psychology
Religion
Government Documents

You may find it helpful to begin your search in Expanded Academic ASAP and/or Academic Search Elite. Both are excellent general information databases found in the Comprehensive Sources category.

AN EXAMPLE OF AN ARTICLE SEARCH To search for articles about distance education:

Choose the database: Expanded Academic ASAP.
Type these words in the Keyword Search box: distance education
Click on Search.

You will find several “hits”. The results will fall into two categories:

full text (the entire article is available on-screen) or
abstract (a short description of the article).

In the Expanded Academic ASAP database, “View text and retrieval choices” indicates a full text article; “View abstract and retrieval choices” indicates an abstract.

Now, do the same search in another database: Academic Search Elite. You will find an icon for “full text” and an icon for “full page image”. Both indicate you have found a full text article. If no icon is visible, you have found an abstract.

Full text article
You’ve entered a database, done a search and you found some material you like. What do you next?

If you find a full text article, you can:

Read it from the screen
Print it
Download it to your hard drive
Email it to YOUR email account