WRTG 205: Business Communication: Finding Articles

Many of the journals you will use in your research are available online through article databases. Databases gather those electronic journals together, usually by subject, and allow you to search many journals for articles on specific topics or by particular authors.  

Getting full-text articles from journal databases:

Place a request wherever you see the blue  button or by logging into your IDS account.

• If Milne has it, we'll get it and deliver it to you (usually within 1-2 days).
• Otherwise, we'll try to get it from another library or vendor (usually within 3-7 days).

 Use one or more of these databases to locate articles on a topic.  IMPORTANT!  When you try to use a resource from off campus, you will be prompted for your Geneseo ID and password (this is the same ID and password you use to access myCourses and your Geneseo email account). Once that's verified, you'll get a link to begin using the database.

Quotations marks (" ") will group words as a phrase, ensuring they appear next to each other in the record. For example: "Corporate Speak" or "constructive criticism."

An Asterisk (*) at the end of a term will allow you to search for different forms of a word with what you enter as a base.  For example: econ* will return results for economy, economic, economics, economist, economical, etc.