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MDSE 2750: Consumers in a Global Market (Coursera)

Course guide for MDSE 2750

Suggested Databases

Which Database Should I Use?

That's an important question because the UNT Libraries provide access to over 500 electronic databases! There are four approaches to this:​

  • Find individual databases under the Databases tab of the search box on the Libraries homepage
  • Find the guides for your course or department under the Subject & Course Guides tab on the Libraries homepage, and look at the recommended databases.
  • Use the Online Articles tab on the homepage to search in 92% of the databases simultaneously or,
  • Contact the library liaison assigned to your course or department; find the librarian using the Subject Librarians List,

Snapshot of databases search tab from library catalog

There are several choices when you use the Databases tab:

  1. Search for a Database by its name,
  2. The Go Directly to menu of all database names,
  3. Browse Subjects menu, which takes you to all databases associated with the selected subject, and  
  4. Frequently Used databases, which are mainly multidisciplinary.

When in doubt, use a multidisciplinary database like Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost or Proquest Research Library.

ADVANCED: Search with Online Articles

Online Articles is a discovery tool that allows you to search 92% of the Libraries' electronic databases simultaneously. Searching in Online Articles is a good way to:

  • find interdisciplinary articles
  • find articles using the Advanced Search, when you only have a partial citation

Start your Online Articles search on the Libraries homepage; select the Online Articles tab from the central search box. Then follow these steps to find articles:

Snapshot of online articles search tab from library catalog

  1. Notice that your search is already limited to Peer-Reviewed Only and Full-Text Only
  2. Enter the search terms you developed earlier into the search box; Online Articles automatically adds the Boolean AND between the terms
  3. On the Results page, you can refine your search on the left by publication date, subject terms, and more
  4. Click on Preview to read the article's summary
  5. Click on the green Find It button to retrieve the article; you will be connected directly to the article
  6. Look for options to download the full text article or to email the article to yourself

Finding the full text of an article

  1. If you have the DOI, paste it directly into the search box on the Libraries' homepage. Click on the "DOI found" button and attempt access through the three options provided.
  2. From the Libraries homepage, go to the search box and select "Online Articles" from the dropdown menu. Copy and paste the title of the article into the search box. Putting the title in quotation marks will improve the accuracy of your search. This system finds many of the articles that the UNT Libraries has access to. If the title is short and uses common words, this technique alone might not work, so you should also include the last names of the author(s).
  3. Next, try searching for the title in Google Scholar—again with just the title or possibly also the names of the author(s). If you are working off campus, be sure to configure "library links" (see instructions). Note that Google Scholar includes not just links to full text of the final published versions but also earlier drafts of articles in cases where the author makes them available. These likely lack the final pagination or other details that you might need in order to find an exact point referenced in a citation.
  4. If these options do not take you to the full text, look up the title of the journal (not the title of the article!) to see if the UNT Libraries has access. From the Libraries homepage, type the name of the journal in the central search box. Select "Cataloged Books and More" from the dropdown menu before clicking search.  If you find the journal, you may be presented with options to access the journal online through one or more platforms and/or to find a print version of the journal in the physical collections of the Libraries. Once you reach the journal, you will need to find your specific article, perhaps by locating the volume and issue in which it's located.
  5. If you are still unable to find full-text access, you can request the article through InterLibrary Loan or you can contact your subject librarian for additional help.