While students writing college-level papers do not usually quote from general encyclopedias, they do sometimes use them to gain an overview and locate a beginning bibliography of key works from which to start their information search. Always remember . . . IPFW Helmke Library's Document Delivery Services borrows books and provides photocopies of journal articles from other library collections for IPFW faculty, students, staff, and alumni members. Ask at the Service Desk for help in using this valuable service. Several of the library's many electronic databases and indexes offer access to the full text of these serial publications.
Full text means that the complete or partial content of an article is available in digital format.
Remember, items not found in IPFW Helmke Library can be ordered through Document Delivery Services . To explore the databases and indexes that are best suited to your topic, make an appointment with a reference librarian. Or just try out one of the many resources you can access via the library's comprehensive Databases and Indexes page. Here is a key electronic database for finding articles in a wide range of disciplines . . . Abstracting and indexing for more than 3,200 popular magazines and scholarly journals in a wide range of fields including education, business, science and technology, and all social sciences and humanities disciplines, with over 1,200 titles available full text.