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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, Tiffany Benson, and Beth Kieffer. 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.

TU Databases

"Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc." -- EBSCO

Links to the full list of research databases offered at McFarlin.

"This database offers full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Many titles go back to volume 1, issue 1." -- ProQuest

JSTOR provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.

ScienceDirect is a major scientific database offering access to a large number peer-reviewed journal articles. It is part of Elsevier, the world's largest scientific, technical and medical publisher.

"Scopus covers more than 24,000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine and social sciences from over 5,000 international publishers." Scopus includes "coverage of: Open Access journals, Conference Proceedings, Trade Publications and Book Series." -- Elsevier

Citing Sources

  • ZoteroBib
    • ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.

Google Scholar

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:

  1. the article is freely available (i.e. in the public domain or open access)
  2. McFarlin Library subscribes to the journal online and you are on the TU campus while using Google Scholar

You may not be able to access the full text through Scholar if:

  1. McFarlin Library does not subscribe to the journal online and it is not freely available
  2. McFarlin subscribes to the journal online and you are off-campus
  3. McFarlin has access to the journal online through a proprietary database (such as EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Gale, etc.)

 

 

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 find the name of the journal in the citation. It is generally found after the names of the authors of the article, as seen below.

 

Once you have the name of the journal, you can search for that journal in Summon to confirm the journal is scholarly, as seen below.

 

NOTE: Summon will be replaced with WMS this summer. Please refer back to this page for new instructions on how to use WMS with Google Scholar.