If your citation is a book, use Franklin, the Library catalog. Franklin will help you find the library in which the book is located, and the call number.
Other important resources for finding books:
These resources will lead you to appropriate book reviews.
These resources provide contextual information.
These databases will help you find scholarly articles about your topic.
When off campus, all resources except Google Scholar will require a PennKey login.
Penn's subscription currently includes all the available collections:
Access to journals from JSTOR is restricted to current Penn faculty, staff and students.
Printing from the JSTOR database requires downloading a helper application called JPrint.
Within a scholarly database (including those listed above), look for the PennText link or button. Click on PennText to open a page with options for obtaining the full-text article.
If you have a complete article citation, or even just a journal title, you can use the PennText article finder on the Library homepage.
To find the full-text of an article, enter the journal name into the PennText article finder. A pop-up box will give you options to access the article online, in print, or the option to request through interlibrary loan
Another option: If you only know the journal title, use FindIt on the Library homepage.
Finally, PubMed's Single Citation Matcher can find health-related citations by author, journal, date, title words, issue, volume, starting page, or any combination. Once the citation is found, select the PennText button that appears in the abstract display.
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Book citations generally show a publisher and a city of publication. Book chapters will include the title of the chapter as well as the name of the book. |
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Article citations have a journal/periodical title in addition to the article title. They will usually also show a volume and issue number, and may show a day and month. |
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