Library FAQ

Follow these steps to search for articles from a particular journal in our library's collections.

1. Go to the CSUSM Library website.
2. Under the Start Your Research bar you will find a link called  "Journals" Click on the link to launch a form.

3. Once you open the form you will be asked for information to locate the article. 

• One way to locate it is to type the exact name of the article title and name of the journal into the form. 
• The second is to provide the digital object identifier (DOI) number in the form.

4. The tutorial below below shows an example of how to fill out the article title, journal name, and the year of publication. Hit Submit to perform a search for the article.  

5. If you know the digital object identifier number, enter this as shown. Hit Submit to perform search for the article.  

6. Once you hit submit, the computer searches for a match.  Here we show you an entry for an article with two options for obtaining full text of the article. Click one of the hyperlinked database collections to view article.

7. If you are met with the message that we DO NOT have the article, you will be provided with an option to request the title via  Resource Sharing 

8. If you don't know the specific title of the article you are looking for but want to browse a particular journal's issues, find the steps to do this at "How can I see if the library has access to a specific journal, newspaper, or magazine?"