You can use the computers in our classroom or ask for a community user pass to use computers in the Learning Commons to access articles using library databases. Without an ONID login, you will not be able to access most articles from your personal laptop or device.

1. On the library homepage, choose the link to Databases A-Z.

2. Choose Academic Search Premier from the Starting Points menu on the Databases page.

3. Enter your search terms, and use the options on the left side of the page to improve your search.

With Google Scholar you can search broadly (across several disciplines) with one search.  You can use Google Scholar to find peer-reviewed articles, but you will also find pre-print copies of articles, conference papers, white papers, patents, legal opinions and more.

1. Before you start -- go to Scholar Preferences and enter Oregon State University in the Library Links field.
2. Enter your keywords in the search box.
3. Browse results, if you find something that you want and you don't see a link to get it at OSU, use 1Search (described in the box above) to see if you can get it here.