Click on the image to learn more about each part of the article.
Professors will often ask you to find articles that are scholarly. What does that mean? Journal articles are usually "scholarly" while magazine articles are "popular". Trade publications are specific publications that are targeted to people who work in specific industries. Click on the image to learn more about different information sources.
EBSCO provides access to thousands of journals in all subject areas, many in full text. Mark results and save, email, print, or add to Zotero.
The ProQuest databases include articles, books, dissertations, company profiles, and ebooks.
Hint: to find a book by its title, put the title in quotes and include the author's last name (e.g. "story of god" and lodahl)
Using Google Scholar will limit your search of the web to scholarly materials and help you to avoid commercial and unreliable sources.
Google Scholar and Riley Library unite!
When you are on campus, Google Scholar results automatically display a Full Text @ Riley Library link if the library has access to a particular article.
If you are off campus, use instructions in the link below to do a one-time setup of Google Scholar on your home computer or device.