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• Go to the Inver Hills Library home page: http://www.inverhills.edu/library. Go to the Quick Links box and click on the arrow.
• Click on Academic Search Premier.
• On this page, click on the Publications button near the top of the page. You will now need to type in the names of the journals you wish to search and mark them.  First, in the Browse Publications box, type in the name of the first journal on the list, Adolescence.  The journal should pop up first in the list. Click in the box next to the title. Continue to type in the name of each journal you wish to search and click in the box next to the title. This is ‘marking’ the items you want the database to search.  When you are done marking the journals you want, click on the Add button at the top of the list of journals. 
  
• All of your journals should appear in the top search box.  Click Search.  Now click Advanced Search (below the search box).  Several search boxes appear.  In the second search box, type in the subject you’d like to search (I chose children).  In the drop down menu next to your subject search, choose SU Subject Terms. Click on Search.  This gives you a list of articles on your topic in the specific periodicals you chose. Now limit your search to only the articles that are Full Text. Under Limit Your Results to the right of your results, click the Full Text box. Then click Update Results.

For more and better results, choose a broad, one- or two-word topic, i.e., children, drugs, television, film, theater, music, alcohol abuse, military, education, crime, sex, religion, culture, sports, families, employment, drug abuse, child abuse, gifted education, etc. then look at the Subdivisions link for articles of interest.

 

 

• Click on the title of the article to open a citation page with an abstract of the article.    To read the full article, click on either the HTML Fulltext or PDF Full text links. Then click on the Print, Email, or Save to File button for the service you want. When you choose any of these options, you can create a citation for it.  After you click on Print, Email or Save, look for the heading, Citation Format,  on the right side of the page. Pull down on the arrow, choose the citation style you need, and proceed with the action you requested. The citation will be at the top of the first page. Another option is to click on the Cite this article icon next to the floppy disc icon at the top of the citation page.  This opens up a link where you can cut and paste a citation into a Word document. It is always a good idea to check with your instructor to make sure your citation is correct.
• If you want to edit your search topic and use the same selected journals, go to the top of the page and edit your search term only. Click on the Search button and new results will come up.
• Most research articles will be more than 10 pages in length and can be more

Dave’s List of Approved Journals:

Adolescence (Library owns this journal in print)
American Journal of Public Health
Australian Journal of Anthropology
Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Library owns this journal in print)
Journal of Family Violence
Journal of Social Issues
Journal of Sport Behavior
Social Forces
Social Policy
Social Research
Social Science Quarterly(choose the Blackwell Publishing Ltd. periodical; Library owns this journal in print)
Society
Sociological Research
Sociological Viewpoints
Sociology of Religion

 

Not full-text in Academic Search Premier but worthwhile options:

American Journal of Sociology (abstract only/Library owns print: Jan. 2006, v. 111:no. 4 - present)
American Sociological Review (abstract only/Library owns print: Feb. 2006, v.71, no.2 - present)
Journal of Marriage and the Family (Library owns print: Feb. 2004, v.66, no.1 - present)
Family Relations (abstract only/Library owns print: Jan. 2004, v. 53, no. 1)