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Boatwright Memorial Library

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

Sources of Journal Articles

Reading Research Articles

Each of these documents offers useful concepts and strategies for reading scholarly journal articles.  Different disciplines observe different standards. Articles in the humanities rarely have the formal structures described on many of these sites. For example, the "literature review" often consists of a paragraph or two in which the authors name previous scholars who have asked related questions (and then declare their inadequacies).  But they always explain the focus of their question, explain why it is worthy of their attention, describe the stages of their analysis, provide evidence for each claim, and document  their sources.

Subject Specific Encyclopedias