Locate Name Article For Free

Most citation information will appear on the first page of the article; however, the location of that information will vary from journal to journal. You can find the placement of the journal name, page number, publication date, and volume and issue number located on the top or bottom of the article's page.

Typing in the author name in the firstname lastname format (e.g., Thomas Jefferson) will usually get you articles about the person, instead of articles written by them. You can follow these steps to search by author name. On the Library homepage, type the author's name in the search box and click search.

In most scholarly journal articles, the DOI will be printed with the article itself, usually on the first page somewhere: below the title or in the header or footer. If the DOI isn't included in the article, look it up on the website CrossRef.org (use the "Search Metadata" option) to check for an assigned DOI.

The PDF title page: On a PDF, the DOI can often be found on the first page, usually underneath the title of the journal, sometimes alongside the volume/issue. Additionally, on other types of PDF's the DOI can be listed at the bottom of the page near the author information.

You'll need to grab the citation from Google Scholar, then click on the title of the article to go to the article page. The article page probably has the DOI, which you should add at the end of the citation with no period following as it can interfere with the link.

Google Scholar, DOAJ, and PubMed can be described as free databases that allow you to search for scholarly materials.

Article title: Always on the first page, toward the top. Periodical title: May appear at the top or bottom of the first page. Sometimes repeated at the bottom of subsequent pages (with volume, issue and page numbers).