Google Scholar Search Box
Just because they call it "Google Scholar" that's no guarantee that everything you find here is scholarly. Use with caution, as you would any resource based on unrestricted self-publication.
If We Don't Have it
If we don't have the journal you need, you can borrow it through our Interlibrary Loan Service.
How to place a request:
- Check OneSearch to see if the library already owns the item.
- If not, Login to ILLiad using your UR netid and password or create an account if this is your first request.
- Select either Article Request, Book Request, or Book chapter request for interlbrary Loan
- Enter the information about the item
- Click Submit Request
- To request another item, click your browser's back button and change the item information
Basic Library Tools
- Library CatalogThis is where you will go to locate books, documents, and audio-visual materials owned by the libraries at the University of Richmond.
Clicking on the title of a book from the list of results displays the details about the title, it location, its availability, the subject headings assigned to it, and often its contents.
Depending on the type of material, you may need to use the location and call number information to find the material on the shelf in the library, or, if it is an online resource, click on the link to the full text.
In the middle of the page, you also have options to email, save to a citation database format, or add to a list of saved titles in in your account (you'll have to sign in to do this). Simply click on the available links.
If a book you need is checked, you can request a copy via our inter-library loan service. Sign in to your library account to see this option.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles on most topics. This multi-disciplinary database is a good place to start if you don't know where else to begin. (EBSCO)
Further information on searching Academic Search Complete and other Ebscohost databases can be found on this Help page:
- OneSearch This link opens in a new windowUse this discovery tool to search most of the University Libraries' collections, including books, journal articles, newspapers, dissertations, music, and video recordings. (Ex Libris)
- Journal TitlesList of journal TITLES -- if we subscribe to it, how to access it (in print or online), and what years are available.
- Google ScholarSearches a scholarly subset of the Googleverse. Good way to find not only the articles themselves, but also who has cited them,
- Interlibrary LoanUse our interlibrary loan service to request books and articles not available at UR.
Humanities Librarian
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804-289-8823
Getting the Full Text of Articles
If the full-text of an article is not available in the database you are searching, look for a "Locate it" button, which will link you to either the journal in which the article is published or to the article itself.
If there is no button, use the Journal Titles tab in the red search box at the top of the main library web page to search for the title of the journal, or use the link below. If we have a subscription, you will learn what years are available and in what database. Some or all years of a journal may be available only in physical form in the periodicals collection on B2.
For other journals we may have limited access, for example, not the most recent issues or not the earliest published issues. If we do not have access to the issue you need, use ILLiad.
