Scholarly Articles

Patrons doing scholarly research here at the Beaverton City Library will often run into the problem that the library doesn't subscribe to the print version of the periodical that they need.  The next step to take is to search the A to Z Serials Access database which will tell the patron if the journal is available full-text online.  If that fails, the Internet is your next step.  Typing in the title of the article in quotations will sometimes lead you to the full-text version, but often it will guide you to one of the subscription services like JSTOR or just be referenced in the bibliography of an article.  But don't give up yet!  Authors submitting articles to scholarly journals are often associated with educational institutions and frequently have their own websites.  Searching the author's name with keywords from the article title will yield surprising results.  I'm not promising that it will work every time, but it is more than worth the effort to give this method a try.  If successful, I am guaranteeing that you will have a very happy patron.