HIS310 Near Eastern and Greek Civilizations Research Guide

If the article is not full text in the online index/database in which you are searching, you can check to see if it is available full text in another database to which the Bethel Library subscribes. Click on the Check for Full Text link.

If the article is indeed full text in another database, the linking program should bring you directly to the article in that other database

If the journal is available at Bethel Library in print you will need to:

• Locate the appropriate print issue
• Make a copy of the article

Let's say you saw the following citation in the reference list or bibliography of an article or book:

Neem, J. N. (2011). Taking modernity's wager: Tocqueville, social capital, and American Civil War. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41, 591-618.

To begin tracking down the full text of this article:

• Access the Bethel Library website
• Locate the Find Something Specific section
• Click on Journals
• Locate the Lookup journal title section
  • Enter a search for the journal title in the search box
  • Click on Search

Look Up Specific Journal Titles in Bethel Library

Review the holdings list that appears, comparing the date of your citation with the formats available for that date.
Choose a format containing that date.

• If you choose an online index/database:
  • Click on the link to the database
  • Click on the date of the article
    (Some databases will not provide a date list, and will require that you place a search for the article within the database)
  • Click on the issue of the article
  • Scan the results list for the article
  • Click on the Full Text link of the article

• If you choose the print format, you will need to:
  • Locate the appropriate print issues in Bethel Library
  • Make a copy of the article

If you have located the citation of an article in an online index/database or in a bibliography/reference list, but have discovered that the Bethel Library does not subscribe to the journal in which the article is found, you will need to request a copy of this article from another library that does subscribe to it.
 

You can make a request for the article using interlibrary loan.

After you have clicked on the Check for Full Text link following a citation in an online index/database, you should be routed back to LibSearch.  If the article is not available, you can request the article.  After logging into LibSearch with your Bethel credentials, you will see a blue Get It button.  Once you will out the form and the request is processed, you will receive the article by email.