Many databases allow you to LIMIT your results to FULL TEXT resources. What does this mean? Limiting your results to full text will only return results that have the entire article attached. Some of the results you get otherwise will be a citation and/or abstract for an article, and you will have to use the JOURNAL LOCATOR to see if we have access to the article. Here are examples of full text options:
Many times when you have an assignment, your professor will ask you to find a SCHOLARY or PEER REVIEWED resource. Unlike magazine or newspaper articles that may or may not be written by an expert in the subject, scholarly, peer-reviewed articles are created by experts in their fields and the resource been reviewed by others in their field before being approved for publication.
Most databases make finding scholarly, peer-reviewed articles easy by providing the option to narrow your search results to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles in the sidebar menu, as pictured below.
Furthermore, your professor may or may not require the resources you use to be created recently. Many databases allow you to narrow your search results to a specific date or date range. This option is usually found in one of the side bar menus as shown below.
