Posts Tagged ‘full text’

How do I resolve a database or article error?

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Penrose Library has a wealth of online resources for students, faculty and staff to use in conducting research. As of May 2012, we have over 700 electronic databases and well over 1.5 million links to electronic resources such as ebooks and government documents in our online catalog!

With this many digital resources, technical problems are bound to arise. Please don’t hesitate to contact the Research Center when you encounter problems accessing a database, an online article, an ebook or any other digital resource. Research Center staff can often troubleshoot the issue with you by phone, email or web chat. If needed, they will refer the problem on for resolution. Working with the content providers, our e-resources team can usually resolve issues the same day that they are reported.

The Research Center is open seven days a week, until midnight Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. You can reach us by phone (303-871-2905), email (research-help@du.edu), chat, or text (720-515-2150). Remember, we can’t fix problems until they are reported…Please let us know if you are experiencing problems or have questions!

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How do I find online articles from Harvard Business Review?

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Penrose Library has online access to articles published in Harvard Business Review (HBR) through Business Source Complete, a subscription based database.  To access this resource and find articles in this periodical take the following steps:

1. Go to the library website at library.du.edu

2. Click on the “Databases” link located in the “Find Articles” section of the page

3. Click on the letter “B”

4. Scroll down and click on “Business Source Complete”

5. Once you are in the database notice that there is a section called “Limit your results” with various options you can use.  Enter Harvard Business Review in the box next to “Publication”

6.  You can then click the search button at the top to retrieve the articles published in HBR or you can enter keywords to search this periodical on specific topics.

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How do I find journal articles?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

To search for journal articles on specific topics you may use the “Find Articles” search found on the Penrose Library homepage to search one of our popular full-text databases: Academic Search Complete.  This database contains articles from many disciplines and is a good place to begin your general search. 

You may also access more specific databases by subject (business, English literature, etc.) by clicking on the Databases link under the Find Articles search box and selecting your subject from the drop down menu.  You can then search within any of the databases recommeneded for your subject. 

If an article you want is not full text in a database, click on the Article Linker button to find out if it is available full-text online in another database.  Learn more about finding full-text articles on our Research Guide  Article Linker: Getting to Online Full Text. 

You can also search from our homepage to find out if we have online full-text of a particular journal.  Put the name of the database in the Find Books and More search box on the library’s homepage, library.du.edu.  The entry marked as [electronic resource] in your results list will show you the database(s) that contain that journal full-text and the years of coverage available.  Click on the year range to the right of the database name to access the database containing that journal.

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How do I request something if it is not in Penrose or in Prospector? How do I use Interlibary-Loan?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) office obtains materials unavailable at Penrose by borrowing from other library collections. The ILL office provides an easy-to-use web-based form to request items. Logon using your DU ID and Password and then fill out the appropriate form as completely as possible.

If you have any trouble completing the form a librarian or assistant from the Research Center can help you.

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I can’t access the article databases. Why doesn’t my name and DU ID number work?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

If you use an ISP other than DU and your name and DU ID number are not working, then you may not be in the Penrose Library patron file database. You can check by calling the Circulation department at 303-871-3707 or completing the Research Question Form.

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Aren’t all of your journals in full-text online?

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Finding full text online

You can search from our homepage to find out if we have online full-text of a particular journal.  Put the name of the database in the Find Books and More search box on the library’s homepage, library.du.edu.  The entry marked as [electronic resource] in your results list will show you the database(s) that contain that journal full-text and the years of coverage available.  Click on the year range to the right of the database name to access the database containing that journal.

Learn more about finding full-text articles on our Research Guide  Article Linker: Getting to Online Full Text.

Why aren’t all articles available in full-text?

Most, but not all, of our journals are available full-text online.  Access is negotiated with publishers and by database vendors, and not all are willing to participate in providing electronic access. In some cases the cost of online access in prohibitive for us. The library must decide how to best provide access to critical materials, given the constraints of cost, equipment, and use.

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