English 103 for College Credit Plus Students: Finding Articles

You will need to know your 7-digit College ID to connect to most of our resources from off-campus.

Not sure what your ID number is? Go to MYCSTATE & use the link for "Look Up Username/Reset Your Cincinnati State Password" to retrieve it. Watch our "Looking Up Your College ID" video for more instructions.

Below are a few popular databases for starting your research, but you can connect to many more through the library's Databases A-Z guide.

“And”, “Or”, “Not”(Boolean Operators): Use the words to narrow or expand your search results. For Example:
 

• “Morrison” AND “symbolism” will return results that contain BOTH of the terms.
• ”criticism” OR “review” OR “interpretation” will return results that contain at least one of the terms. Useful for words with similar meanings.

• ”cinderella” NOT “rock band” will return results that do NOT include the 1980’s rock band, Cinderella.

Truncate using the asterisk (hold the Shift key & the 8 key at the same time) to get results that include all possible endings of a root word. Fo example:
 

• "symbol*" will retrieve symbol, symbolizes, symbolism, etc.
• "devia*" will retrieve deviates, deviant, deviance, etc.

Brainstorm words or concepts that are similar in meaning and use those as search terms. If you find a good resource, look at the “Subject Headings” or “Descriptors” listed and use those as additional search terms.

Bibliographies/References/Works Cited pages are great ways to find additional resources. You can search by title in the library’s Catalogs and/or Databases.