To locate items when you do not have an author or title of a work, use the subject search option, e.g., type Spanish, Spanish Literature, Spanish American, Mexican American, Hispanic, Chicano, or Latino. To find journal articles , use a periodical index or electronic database. If you are on campus, or at Ruidoso or CAFB ITV, go to the library s home page and click on the periodical databases button and then a database icon. Check the related terms and descriptors for help in narrowing or broadening your search. For the purposes of academic research, your instructor may require you to use scholarly, peer-reviewed or refereed journals.
Some databases offer full-text articles, but many provide only citations and abstracts.
Use the ILL Request Form in FirstSearch to request material found in a FirstSearch database. Use Golden's ILL Request Forms to request material from any other source. Complete the form and submit. Use the Book button to request circulating material, and the Article button to request photocopied material. Complete the form and submit.