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Scholarly journal articles are great for:
Popular magazine and newspaper articles cover:
Current Photography Subscriptions include:
Aperture (2003-current issue in paper)
Popular Photography & Imaging (1955-current issue in paper)
Leonardo (1968-2007 full-text in JSTOR, 2001-current issue in Project Muse)
The following list contains both multi-disciplinary journal and magazine article databases as well as special subject databases. Many articles are full-text, others may be available in the library or through Interlibrary Loan.
The PDF icon should open Adobe Reader and show the full text of the article as originally published. Print and save from the Adobe Reader interface.
The "Find Full Text" link will take you to the library's Discovery system. If the article is available full text through another source, a few clicks should take you to it. If it is not, you will see a message recommending an interlibrary loan request.
"Interlibrary Loan" or "ILL" service is free to OCU students, faculty, and staff and usually takes 3 - 5 days. The library staff requests the article from another library and then emails it to you.
For articles not found through EBSCOhost, check the library's Discovery System for the article or request through Interlibrary Loan.
Many citations in the sciences use standardized abbreviations for journal titles. You will need the full title in order to request interlibrary loan and you may need the standard abbreviation for your own citations.
Request a Journal Article
If ... it isn't available full text online or in the library's journals list.
If you found it in EBSCOhost, click on "Request through ILL (arrives in 3 days to 3 weeks)"
If you found it elsewhere, use the request form below.
fill in article title and author, journal title, date, volume, issue, and page numbers plus your contact information
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If … we don't own a copy and it isn’t a course textbook by using "Request through Interlibrary Loan" in
or fill in title, author, publisher, and date plus your contact information on the
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