When searching for journal articles in Quick Find, type in your keyword(s) or search terms and then limit your results (on the left) to Peer-Reviewed Journals and Full-Text Online under Refine Your Search. It's also a good idea to limit your results to Articles under Resource Type. Like books, you can add further limits as needed.
Click on the video below to watch a demonstration of searching for journal articles in Quick Find.
There are pros (ease of use, breadth of subject areas searched) and cons (full-text not always available, not all results are scholarly) to using Google Scholar.
It is important that you configure your Google Scholar settings to allow access to U of R databases. Instructions can be found here, or click the video demonstration below.
For other tips, see Robert Thomas's Google Scholar LibGuide.
Quick Find searches the majority of the U of R's online databases. However, you may choose to search individual databases to narrow your research down to your specific discipline and to search the full-text of sources.
Some of the databases only contain peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, limiting the need for filters.
Some databases will point you towards "citations" of sources that are not available full-text but that we could interlibrary loan (see below).
Some databases you may want to try for research in ENGL 110 are:
MLA International Bibliography
Video demo's of these four are listed below.
You may wish to check out some other databases pertaining to English. Click on the Databases tab on the the library home page. Select English in the Subject box.
If you learn of a book or article that you think would be helpful, and discover that it is not available through Quick Find, you can place an interlibrary loan on the article and have it located and sent to you from a different library. To place an interlibrary loan, follow the instructions outlined here.
