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PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy (Hubick, Winter 2025): Journal articles

Finding journal articles in Quick Find

Quick Find is a search tool that will help you locate research materials in all four campus libraries. You can use this tool to search for peer-reviewed journal articles (although you can search for many other types of materials as well, by changing the Resource Type filters). You can access Quick Find from the Library home page.

To search for journal articles in Quick Find:

  • Log into Quick Find (top right corner of the screen) using your Novell username and password.
  • Enter your search terms (for searching tips, see Archer Library's Quick Find LibGuide).
  • Under Modify my results in the left column, select Peer-reviewed journals (under the Availability heading).
  • Under Resource Type, select Articles.

Screenshot of the "Modify my results" column, including the "Availability" heading, which includes an option to limit results to Peer-reviewed journals, and the "Resource Type" heading, where you can limit results to articles.

  • When you find an item you would like to view, click on the item's title to bring you to the item record.
  • Under the View Online heading, select the database link (or one of the database links; sometimes an article is available in more than one database).
  • Once you are brought to the article's item record, locate the link to the PDF file to view it.

Image of the "View Online" section of an item record in Quick Find, where you can click on a database link (in this case, ABI/INFORM Collection) to access an article.

Please note that if you are working off campus, most of the library's online resources require that you log in with your uregina username and password.

Philosopher's Index

Philosopher's Index is an index to journal articles and other resources specifically relating to philosophy. Because it is an index only, this database does not contain full-text documents. However, selecting the Where can I find this? link for a given item will search for a full-text version of the article within the university's holdings.

Search tips:

  • If you are carrying out a Basic Search, use Boolean operators (AND and OR) to combine multiple search terms.
  • If you are carrying out an Advanced Search, consider searching for relevant subject headings. Click Look up Subject headings (all), then enter the search term and Find. Select any relevant subject headings, then Add to search.
  • After you search, select Scholarly Journals under the Source Type heading in the left column. Other limits are also available in the Left column of the search results screen.

Interlibrary loans

If you are unable to find a book or article through the library's catalogue or databases, you can make an interlibrary loan (ILL) request to obtain this material from another library. 

Just ask for help at Campion Library, or you can check out the ILL webpage for more details.

Please note that ILL can be very quick -- but it can also take days, or even weeks to complete (since the material is coming from another library), so it's a good idea to plan ahead and start your research early.

Other databases

You may also find it helpful to search these other databases for journal articles. Please note that if you are working off campus, most of these resources require you to log in with your uregina username and password in order to access them.

  • Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database indexing articles from more than 9,500 journals.
  • Gale Academic OneFile Select is a multidisciplinary database with journal articles from 1980 to the present, with full text available for many articles.
  • Project MUSE contains full-text articles in the humanities, social sciences, and education. 

Please note: Some of these resources include citations only; that means that you will need to track down the actual article elsewhere. If you need help with this step (or at any point along the way) please feel free to contact the Librarian for assistance.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a multidisciplinary database with full-text backfiles of more than 1000 journals. 

Search tips:

  • Use quotation marks to search for a phrase (e.g. “First Nations”).
  • Use the * wildcard symbol to replace one or more letters (e.g. technolog* retrieves technology, technological, technologies, technologically, etc.).
  • Use the ? wildcard to replace exactly one letter (e.g. wom?n retrieves woman and women).
  • From the Search Results page you can narrow your search by selecting filters in the Refine Results column on the left side of the page.
  • When you find an article that you would like to read, click on the Download PDF link on the item record page.

For additional assistance searching in JSTOR, please see the Support link available from the JSTOR homepage.