Tomlinson Library has registered our journal holdings with Google Scholar. After setting up full text linking for CMU (see next section), you can search Google Scholar and see the full text of articles available through our databases.
Tell Google Scholar you’re affiliated with Colorado Mesa and you’ll be linked to resources in our databases:
Google Scholar can be used to search on a topic, but it is especially effective for tracking down a specific article. If an article is available in full text through the library databases, a link will be provided to the full text.
Who: Who wrote the article? Are their credentials listed? Who is the intended audience?
What: What are the author(s) trying to say? Can you find the thesis statement?
Where: What kind of publication was the article published in (a scholarly journal, a magazine to educate patients, a popular source for scientific information)? Where was the research completed and who does it impact?
When: Is your article recent? It should have been published within the last six months.
How: How did the author(s) acquire the information? Can the experiments be run again? Can the information be found again?
Subjects: History, Literature, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics. Art.
Multidisciplinary index to peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles; some full-text; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.
If you can't think of a good topic, here are a few places to look for ideas: