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Writing 101 (Maharaj)

Finding Known Items

If you have a known item, especially a journal article, here are some places to search to locate the item.

1) Google Scholar

  • includes many articles and references to books, a quick way to check for article titles though it is not exhaustive

2) UC Library Search

  • includes a wide range of formats and goes beyond UC's collection
  • can Request easily from records in this catalog

3) Selected Database

  • If the article is from Psychology, you could try a document title searching in a database like PsycInfo OR Web of Science to locate the item.

4) eJournal Finder

  • includes coverage details for periodicals (newspapers, journals, and magazines)
  • use to determine if UC Merced has the periodical

Activity:

Can you find these articles? Use the methods above to see if you can find these articles. 

Goyal, Manu S. et al. (2019). Persistent metabolic youth in the aging female brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 

Boothy, E. J, Cooney, G, & Sandstrom, G.M. (2018). The liking gap in conversations: do people like us more than we think? Psychological Science. 29(3). 1742-1756.