2. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles Journals, magazines and newspapers – the Library has thousands of titles! Some are print journals located here in the Library’s Periodical collection, but hundreds of thousands of articles can be located online in our magazine, journal and newspaper databases!

3. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles Let’s say you are writing your paper on “wind energy”. You aren’t sure what your specific focus is yet, so you just want to start with some general information from experts on the topic.

4. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles From the Library home page, under Research Tools, click on “research databases”.

5. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles There are many databases to choose from…

6. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles …but EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier is a good place to start!

7. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles It is a user-friendly database and most of its articles are in full text, which means you can print the entire article right from your computer!

8. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles Remember, if you access any of these databases from off-campus, you will be asked to log in with your 14-digit Mesabi Range College Library barcode and your Library password, which is your last name.

9. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles Once in the database, type your topic in the search box … in this case, “wind energy”.

10. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles As you can see, there are plenty of articles on this topic!

11. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles Articles can be printed out, or emailed to yourself or others.

12. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles You can even see how the article should be cited!

13. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles If you find an a article that is not full text – like an abstract or a citation…

14. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles …simply print out the article information and bring it to your Librarian!

15. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles She will help you find the article from a Library that owns it and request them to send a free photocopy for your use.

16. Seven Secrets to Success – Finding Articles Magazines, journal and newspaper articles... …knowing how to find them is a key to success!