 Have you ever tried to find an article but not been able to because you only knew the name of the journal? Have you ever searched for a journal article and not been able to access it, either because you had an incorrect reference or the journal asked you to pay for the article? I'll show you how to search for an article and get it without paying. Here's a scenario. You have a reference, perhaps from a bibliography, and you need to track down this source. You think this is an article, but at this point it's a good idea to ask how do you know this reference is to an article and not to a book or report. Journal articles are identified by the following elements. One or more authors, an article title, a journal title, volume and issue numbers, page numbers and date of publication. Back to our reference. We can confirm it's an article by identifying that it's from the journal Canadian Geographer, that the title of the article is Mapping International Flows of Electronic Waste, and we can also see volume, issue, page numbers and year of publication. We know now that we need to look for the journal Canadian Geographer. Let's now start at the library home page, library.wlu.ca. Click the link on the left side of the page to journal titles. Then type the journal title into the search box in the middle of the page and click the search button. If the journal is available electronically, you'll see the title appear in the journal title section below the search box. Click this link. Another window will open. You'll notice full text links if we have a subscription to the journal and what databases they are found in. Note the dates shown for the available years. Be careful to select the database with the range of years that you're looking for. Let's choose the first access link. A new window will open up and this shows us the journal Canadian Geographer, available from the scholar's portal database. There are now two ways that we can get to our article. You could browse the journal issues and navigate to the year and the issue that you're looking for or you can search within this journal for the article title. Let's search for our article by first checking the box that limits the search to this journal. Then type the title of the article into the search box. Click the search button below. We see the citation to the article appear in the results screen. You can read the full text of the article by clicking the button below the citation. Note that other databases may indicate full text either with an HTML link or another full text icon. If you click the full text link, you can get the electronic copy. The full text copy should open up in a separate window. But what if there is no full text version available electronically? Let's go back to the previous page where we started to look for journals by title. We'll search for the journal California Geographer. Your search returns no records, but note we can search for print journals using Primo. Enter the journal title in the search box and click search. If we have the journal in the library, we will see the location and holdings information. To get full details, click the details tab then more bibliographic information. This window shows us what locations the journal is found in and what range of years the library has for a journal. If we don't have the journal electronically or in print, you can request a copy through our Interlibrary Loan Service Racer. For more information on our Interlibrary Loan Service, please watch our tutorial requesting Interlibrary Loans. If you have any questions, ask us at library.wlu.ca.