Beginning with the article title, you will need all of the information below to cite your article in your bibliography. You will need all this information to fill out a Periodical Request card. If the list indicates that COM does have the desired periodical, you may get the magazine or journal yourself. Current issues are on shelves near the entrance to COM Library. We ask that you do not re-shelve these older issues, but place them in the baskets provided.
Online databases are indexes or databases of articles and citations to articles.
They are accessed through the Internet, but do not search the Internet. When you perform a search in an online database you are searching a list of articles, abstracts, and in some cases the full text of articles. The original publishers of these articles have agreed to make these articles available to the database and the library has purchased the right to access the database. Generally not all articles are full text even in a full text database because some publishers choose not to make the full text of their articles available. Some magazine and journal publishers do publish articles on the Internet.