Education Subject Guide

If you already have a citation from a bibliography or other source, you have everything you need to find the article if the library owns it!

First identify the title of the journal or the title of the article.

Example:
Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(3), 5–13.
In the example above, The New Criterion is the title of the journal. The eclipse of listening is the article title. You know that the title is a journal article because the volume is typically listed in a journal citation and a book citation usually has a publisher name. 

Then find the article:

• Use the Hiram College "Finding Journals" search to find journals by title. Then use the year, volume, and page number to narrow down your search.
• Use OneSource to search for articles by article title. 
• Verify that the information is correct, and view the article if it is available, or request it via Interlibrary Loan if it is not. 
• Remember to save the link to the article by using a "Permalink."

If you already have a citation from a bibliography or other source, you have everything you need to find the book or book chapter if the library owns it!

First identify the title of the book:

Example 1 (book alone):
Stoneman, R. (2008). Alexander the Great: A life in legend. Yale University Press.
In the example above, Alexander the Great: A life in legend is the title of the book.

Example 2 (chapter within a book):
Armstrong, D. (2019). Malory and character. In M. G. Leitch & C. J. Rushton (Eds.), A new companion to Malory (pp. 144-163). D. S. Brewer.
In the example above, A new companion to Malory is the title of the book. Malory and character is the title of the chapter or article within the book. You know that the title is a book and not a journal because the publisher (D. S. Brewer) is listed and it says that it is "in" a another work (in this case, an edited work by Leitch & Rushton). In a journal article citation, the volume is typically listed instead of a publisher.

Once you know the book title:
Use the Hiram College Library catalog to see whether we own the book. If we do not, you can check the OhioLINK catalog to see if they own it. If you are looking for a portion of the book as in Example 2, then check the page numbers in the citation. Use them to locate the chapter or article within the book (in this case, pages 144-163).