Skip to Main Content

Landscape of American Thought: PHIL 0824

General Education Course

Chasing Citations, Finding Full Text

This assignment asks you...

  • Pick a topic drawn from class readings and discussions
  • Peruse the bibliographies of class readings for three scholarly articles relevant to your topic
  • Search three different tools for the full-text of your articles
  • Analyze the most interesting of the three articles

Google Scholar

Question: Why would you use Google Scholar?

Answer: Google Scholar identifies scholarly research materials from a broad range of subject areas. It can be a great place to begin your research and learn more about your topic.

If you are off-campus, set-up your preferences to access Temple's full-text articles through Google Scholar.

Find Journals

Citing / Deciphering Citations

Search across the Libraries' collections