Welcome to McFarlin Library
McFarlin Library is located in the heart of the University of Tulsa campus, a premier private university. McFarlin provides access to more than 500 databases, 54,000 electronic periodicals, and over 990,000 book titles.
The Department of Instruction and Research at McFarlin Library is comprised of Lisa Grimes, Kathryn Thomas, Charles Brooks, and Tiffany Benson. We are here to help you with the research process and how to navigate academic databases and other resources. If you need to contact the library, please use this email for prompt service.
Research Hours
Monday-Friday: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Procedures for Doing Research at McFarlin
You can use Discovery to search for books, databases, entertainment, and more.
Just enter words into the search box that best describe what you are looking for.
Click the picture below to watch a video on how to use Discovery - our new online catalog.
Google Scholar is a version of the Google search engine that searches the web for scholarly publications (primarily articles and books).
Important note: Articles found through Google Scholar are not guaranteed to be peer-reviewed. Additionally, Google Scholar cannot access proprietary databases such as those in EBSCOhost.
Google provides links to the articles it finds, usually on the publisher's website. You will be able to access the full text of the article if:
You may not be able to access the full text through Scholar if:
When you find a source in Google Scholar, you must check to see if the journal article is scholarly, or peer reviewed. To do this you will need to copy the name of the article or journal in the citation. See below
Once you have the name of the article, you can search for the article in Discovery to confirm the article is scholarly, as seen below.
If you want to see if an entire journal has peer-review status, you can search for the journal title in our journal list. See below.
