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Handout Searching for Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed Articles through OneSearch

This answer will walk you through searching for scholarly/peer-reviewed articles through OneSearch.

Steps:

• Go to the library's home page: www.frostburg.edu/library
• Under the welcome sign is OneSearch.
• OneSearch allows you to search by keyword, title, or author.
  • It also allows you to narrow down to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles and full-text articles right on the library's homepage.
• For this example, search on SOCIAL MEDIA AND COLLEGE STUDENTS as keywords
• Select Search.
• This will open up the results screen.
• If you are off-campus, you will get the login option at the top that says: HELLO GUEST. LOGIN FOR FULL ACCESS.
  • Log in using your 14-digit Barcode and last name.
  • Your Barcode starts with 2206.
  • If you don't know your barcode, see FAQ on how to find your 14 digit barcode
• Once you log in, you will have access to everything that is full-text available.
• We can see that I have about 43,000 items.
• So these are scholarly/peer- reviewed articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles. They might be print books, e-books.
• To narrow down to just scholarly/peer-reviewed articles:
  • On the left-hand side of the screen, it allows me to REFINE MY RESULTS.
  • So where it says LIMIT TO: I'm going to narrow to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
  • So I will put a check next to that and now I just get scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
• We now have about 30,000 scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
• You can continue to narrow down your results by full-text, subject, date, geography.
• Once you find an article that you would like to use, click on the title of that article.
• You will then have additional information about that article, including the abstract.
  • The abstract tells you what the article is about in a short paragraph.
  • It can help you determine whether you want to use the article for your research.

If you need further assistance, please contact a Research Librarian.