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Handout Using OneSearch to Find Magazine Articles

Handout Using OneSearch to Find Newspaper Articles

Steps to finding a newspaper/magazine article using OneSearch:

• Go to the Library's Home Page: www.frostburg.edu/library.
• Under this welcome sign is OneSearch.
  • OneSearch allows you to search by keyword, title, or author for resources.
• For this example, we will search on social media and college students
• Go ahead and select Search.
• The results screens will come up and we have about 43,000 results.
• If you are working off-campus, it will say up at the top it says HELLO GUEST. LOGIN FOR FULL ACCESS.
  • Select HELLO GUESTS LOGIN FOR FULL ACCESS. It will ask me for your 14-digit barcode and last name.
  • Your 14-digit barcode can be found on my FSU ID.
  • Your barcode is 14-digits and will start with 2206.
  • If you need assistance finding your barcode, see the FAQ on Finding your 14-Digit Barcode.
  • Once you log in, you then will be able to access everything that the library has full text.
• If you are working on-campus, you will not have to log in.
• And again, I have four 43,511 results.
• And if you scroll down, you can see I've got academic journals, I might have reports, I might have books.
• So I've got lots of different items and you can see that it puts an icon next to the items.
• So what you want to do is narrow it down to newspaper articles first.
• Newspaper articles:
  • To narrow down, go to the left-hand side of the screen where it says REFINING RESULTS and under publication type it as a list of different publication types.
  • Newspaper articles are not listed there. So I'm going to go ahead and click where it says SHOW MORE.
  • And then we can see that NEWS is listed here. I'm going to go ahead and put a check next to NEWS and CLICK UPDATE.
  • And now I will only have results that are newspapers. You can see we have a newspaper icon listed next to that.
  • You can continue to narrow down by full-text, subject, geography, etc.
  • Once you find a newspaper article that you want to use and to get more information about the newspaper article, click on the title of the newspaper article.
  • And again, what it'll do is bring the screen up that will provide more information about the newspaper article.
• Magazine articles:
  • To find magazine articles, go back to your result list.
  • Up at the top it tells you right now what you have currently refined my results too.
  • Select the X next to news to remove that and so now you are back to all different types of results.
  • And this time you want to do is put a check next to magazines under publication type.
  • Now you can see that you will just get magazine articles with an icon that says Periodicals.
  • You can continue to narrow down by full-text, subject, geography, etc.
  • Once you find a magazine article that you want to use and to get more information about the magazine article, click on the title of the magazine article.
  • And again, what it'll do is bring the screen up that will provide more information about the magazine article.

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