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HTML or PDF Full Text
- OCLS databases will usually have a button for HTML or PDF Full Text for the articles that come up in your search.
Check Online Availability
- There will be times when the HTML or PDF Full Text button is not available.
- When this happens, click on the Check Online Availability button.
- This will search through the other databases to see if full text is available through another database.
Print Journals
- If full text is not available online, search in the library's online catalog for the journal's
- If IWU has the print article, request a copy of the article to be emailed to you.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
- If IWU does not have the article online or in print, you can request the article through ILL.
- Visit our ILL portal and log in with your myIWU username and password.
- Select the Request an Article button and fill out the form.
- Fill out all the publication information you have to make sure you received the correct article.
- QUICKSearch (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSearch articles, books, ebooks,videos and more. QUICKSearch provides comprehensive access to all library resources.
- PAIS Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowPAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes articles in the social sciences that bear on public policy, administration and law.
- ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowMajor source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFull-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, including Harvard Business Review.
- Policy File Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowPolicy File Index is a unique resource for U.S. public policy research. Users are able to access timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstract This link opens in a new windowOver 150,000 summaries of books & reports, journal articles, program descriptions, and evaluations maintained by the National Institute of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Includes U.S. material and selected international publications, in English. Topics include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime.
- ProQuest Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts current research (articles are from 1980 to the present) in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; evaluation research; the family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services.
- ProQuest: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowWorldwide Political Science Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 750 core serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
- JSTOR: Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowArts and humanities database on language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the study of art and architecture.
