Search Tips for Finding Scholarly Articles Online
Communication Students,
How can you find research articles with text on the Internet? A couple of good tools to get you started:
University Library
Connect to the University Library at
http://www.csufresno.edu/library/
and then click on Articles Indexes, Periodicals, and Databases to begin searching.The University Library provides a proxy server that makes it appear that your home computer is coming from a campus IP address (note: a campus IP is needed to authenticate to all of our resources under license agreements. If you're using the Library from campus, the proxy gets omitted, but if you're not on campus your internet traffic will be forced through the proxy server and you'll get access to the articles.
Note: If you are off-campus, you will be prompted at this point to log-in with your UserID and your password.PowerPoint Slides illustrating University Library a periodicals search
Library tutorials are available at
http://www.csufresno.edu/library/libraryinformation/libraryinstruction/HowTo.htm
Google Scholar
Another tool is in the familiar http://www.google.com/ search engine.
You can get to text for articles on Charles Berger's Uncertainty Reduction Theory by using Google
and clicking on Scholar for type of search.
Then enter
berger "uncertainty reduction theory"
and you should get quite a few links to scholarly publications, many of which will have the text of articles,
for example,
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2001.tb02894.x
Within this article, there is a section describing Berger's uncertainty reduction theory.
You will find several other good articles, including some by Berger....Another search on Google Scholar yields an ERIC resource showing an article by Walt Fisher, “The Narrative Paradigm: In the Beginning,” in the Journal of Communication 35 (Fall 1985) 73-89. You may have to request this journal. Note we have many of the Communication journals (including this one) in the Department, and you can ask at the Department Office for access to a particular issue. Note that this Google Scholar search will produce many other links, some with the text of articles, which are conveniently read. Sometimes really good sources must be tracked down to the paper edition in the Library, and this is actually a good thing.
Sage Publications
Sage Publications makes many of its journal articles available to students and scholars online. One point of entry to the search engine is"
Entering
bales phases
in the search yielded 193 articles! The Adobe Reader pdf files for most of them opened nicely. Not a bad start.Blackwell Synergy
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
provides access to the Blackwell Synergy search tool.As an example, find articles on or using Timothy Leary’s “interpersonal circumplex” theory, you can enter
leary interpersonal circumplex
and click on search.This search produced 24 articles. For most of them, you can get an Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the article or access via a text-file. A few links require a subscription.
You may have to look within a number of articles to find material relevant to Leary’s theory relevant to your research interest. The entire article doesn’t need to be relevant. A single paragraph may contain an excellent encapsulation of Leary’s theory.
Writing and Using Research Quotations/Paraphrases
John Cagle and Ross LaBaugh's Communication and Information Competency in Small Bytes
Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnca/infocomp/aw1.htm
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/PowerPoint Slides on Writing and Scholarly Style
John A. Cagle
Dept of Communication
California State University, Fresno
http://comm.csufresno.edu/cagle.htm
25 September 2006