This short presentation shows how to locate a magazine or journal article in the Merced College Library databases.

1. How to Find Articles from the
Library Databases

2. On the Internet, go to the
Merced College webpage.

4. Click on: MC Portal

5. Type your log in information.

6. Click on: Library

7. Click on: Find Databases

8. Databases can be selected by subject,
type, or database name.

9. This example search will be on
Academic Search Premier.

10. Click on: Advanced Search

11. Advanced Search interface.

12. Select the Full Text check box.

13. If required for an assignment, select
the Peer Reviewed checkbox.

14. The Subject Terms field has been selected by
clicking on the triangle of the dropdown menu.
The word, “aluminum” will be searched as a
subject term. The two general search fields
have the terms, “recycling” and “products”.

15. Click on: Search, then wait a few seconds
while the database searches for articles.

16. 34 articles have been retrieved.

17. Click on an article title to see more
information about an article.

18. The subject terms and abstract give concise
information about the main topics contained in the
article.

19. Click on: PDF Full Text to view the actual article.

20. First page of the article.

21. To email an article, first click on:
“E-mail”.

22. The email page has a few items to
complete in order to send the
article by email.

23. Click on the dropdown menu of
Citation Format options and select
the needed format, for example:
MLA.
Citation Format
dropdown menu.

24. To email an article, type information
in these two fields.

25. For additional information on finding
articles, please contact the library.
W.A.
December 7, 2017