Find books, online scholarly articles or newspaper articles that OSU subscribes to.  If you need to find specific items, such as books by a particular author, use the advanced search option for more precise searching. Access 1Search from the library's home page.

 Look for the button to open the full article.

Options for getting to the PDF will open in a new window. Sometimes the link will take you to the journal, not the individual article. Use the citation information for the article to get to the right year, volume and issue of the journal.

If the library doesn't have it, request the article for free from Interlibrary Loan. On average, articles arrive digitally within one business day.

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A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

The Library How-To Guides provide an excellent place to look for help with citing sources - whether for websites, books, or articles.

Do remember that it is critical to cite your sources. Reasons to cite sources include:

• giving credit to those that have contributed to the conversation ahead of you
• letting others know how you developed your thinking and conclusions about the topic (and so they can follow the trail back to the sources)

And all materials should be cited. Just because a work is freely available, does not mean the above rationale does not apply.