 If your professor provides you with a citation for an article and asks you to access it and read it, what do you do? Today I'm going to teach you how to use a citation to find the full text of an article within the IRSC Library's online research databases. Let's have a look at this APA style citation for a journal article. The author is Burdick Kaye. The publication year is 2020. The title of the article is Pandemics in PTSD, Caring for the Caregivers. The journal that the article is from is Med Surge Nursing. The volume is 29. The issue is 6. The page range is 365 through 390. And this last part of the citation is the permalink URL that takes you directly to the article. So when you have the permalink URL, you could just use that. Assuming you don't have access to that, then you would need to do the process that I'm about to show. This citation provides us with everything we need to know to find and identify this specific article. The piece we'll need first is the journal name, which in this case is Med Surge Nursing. To find a specific journal, first head to irc.libguides.com. In the menu on the right-hand side, click Databases by Subject. Click on the J. Scroll down. Click on Journal Title Search. Now we'll enter the journal title here in the Journal Search box. I've entered Med Surge Nursing and I got one result for that search. It looks like a match, so I'll click on it to see more details. This page lists the full text availability for this journal across all of the databases to which IRSE Libraries subscribes. I know EBSCO Synol Complete is a great database for nursing articles, and I can see that the coverage for this journal is from 1999 forward. My article was published in 2020, so it should be included here. I'll click on EBSCO Synol Complete to see the publication details for this journal within that database. If you haven't logged in already, you will be prompted to log in before you are taken to this Synol database. Log in with your My Pioneer Portal credentials, which is your complete RiverMail email address and the same password you use for RiverMail and My Pioneer Portal. I can search within the journal for the specific article I need by copying and pasting the article title into the Search Within publication field here. Alternatively, I can drill down to the publication year, which is 2020. Then to the volume listed, which is 29, then the issue, which is 6. So that's this one. Finally, I would search for the specific article title, and I know I only have 15 to go through, so here it is the third one. Pandemics and PTSD Caring for the Caregivers. I can search within the journal for the specific title I need now that I'm in the Search Within publication area. It's pre-populated with the name of the journal. Now I just have to search for the title of the specific article I'm looking for. You can type that in or copy and paste it. The one and only search result I got is the one I was looking for, so this was successful. Now I can click on the article title and I can read the full text of the article. Thanks for watching, and remember, librarians are ready to help you find and access articles. Head to irc.libguides.com slash Ask a Librarian to get help.