 Hi, my name is Sarah. I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama. This video will demonstrate how to use Project Muse to find scholarly books and articles for your research. Starting at the library's homepage, at libraries.ua.edu, select the databases link from the quick menu. You can choose Project Muse from the frequently used list at the right, or locate it under P in the A to Z list. Project Muse provides full-text access to scholarly journals and e-books in the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as gender, women's and sexuality studies, area and ethnic studies, and religious studies. When you reach Project Muse from UA Libraries, it takes you to a page where you can either browse using the filters along the left side of the page, or perform a simple keyword search using the box at the top. For example, let's say you're doing research on environmentalism. You can start here with a bronze search for environmentalism in the top search box. You can also click on the yellow magnifying glass to take you to the Advanced Search page, which we'll look at in the Advanced Searching video. This search returned a few different types of items, journal articles, a special issue of a journal, and reviews. Project Muse also has e-books. The type of source is listed in red in each record. For right now, let's focus on articles. Under Content Type on the left, check the box next to articles. This is still a pretty broad topic with a lot of results, so let's look at some ways to narrow them down. Say you really want to focus on environmentalism and religion. You can narrow your results in two ways. First, you can use filters or facets to browse within your results. On the left side of the page, there are filters for publisher, book series, journal, author, language, and research area, and you can limit by publication year. For most users, the research area filter will be most useful. You can either scroll through the box or type a keyword in the field at the top. Select the subject you want to limit your results to. Now, I have a list of about 60 results that mention environmentalism somewhere in their content and are tagged with the research area, religion. This method can be a great way to explore a new topic with a single broad search term. You can select different research area limiters or just scroll through the list to see what research areas are represented. Let's try a different approach. Scroll back to the top of the page and select clear all facets above the search boxes. This deselects any limiters you have applied in the boxes below while keeping your original search term. Select articles again and type religion in the second search box. By default, you're searching content, which includes titles, abstracts, and full text, and the AND connector is set. This search will return results for anything that has both of these terms anywhere in its content. You'll notice that this method returns more results than the first one we tried. Once you find an article that will be good for your research, you have a few options to save it. You can download the item directly from the list of search results or select the article title to navigate to the item page. From there, you can email it to yourself by entering your email in the recommend field on the right. The email will include the article title information, abstract, and a link. You can also generate a citation by selecting view citation near the top of the page. Choose the format you want and copy and paste it into your document. Make sure you double check that all the information and formatting is correct. That's it for now. Thanks for watching and for more information on searching and project muse, check out our videos, advanced searching and project muse, and using the My Muse library on our YouTube page. If you have any questions, you can call us at 205-348-6047, text us at 205-377-0920, or visit ask.lib.ua.edu to ask a librarian.