To find an article on a topic, you must first conduct a search in a database.
To select a begin at the UWM Libraries homepage:
- Use Search@UW, a tool for searching most articles
- Use Databases A-Z if you already know the name of a specific subject database
- Browse Databases Subject if you need to find a database that covers the subject area related to your topic.
For help searching databases, see the Finding Articles tutorial.
Searching article databases will result in a list of citations, which provides the information needed to locate articles in print journals, magazines, and newspapers. In addition to citations and abstracts, some databases also provide full-text of articles, which you can view online, print, or e-mail. Some databases, such as Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, JSTOR, and Project Muse, have complete full-text for all articles. However, most databases have only partial full-text coverage, which means full-text is available for selected journals only. Still other databases provide only citations or citations with abstracts and no full-text coverage at all.
If an article is not available online, you must follow the 
link to determine if the library owns the journal in which the article is published. See getting full text for more information.