Some journals are freely available online and may not be searchable through library databases.
Search directly via the journal home page:
Can't find the full text of an article?
Step 1: Start your search for scholarly articles in an article database such as APA PsycInfo or Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Step 2: Search for one or more of the terms from your topic, such as brief.
The Subjects area of a database can help you identify what term is used in that particular database to describe your concept/theory. For example, a search for brief in the Subjects offers helpful terms such as Brief Interventions and Brief Psychotherapy:
Tips:
Step 3: When searching for topics related to marriage and family, it can be helpful to limit to a subset of articles on those topics. To do that, type in 295* or 3310 or 3313 and change the drop-down menu to Classification. Doing so searches those areas in the APA PsycInfo Classification Codes (locate them on the Advanced Search page or on the APA website).
2950 Marriage & Family
2953 Divorce & Remarriage
2956 Childrearing & Child Care
3310 Psychotherapy & Psychotherapeutic Counseling
3313 Group & Family Therapy
Step 4: Narrow your results as needed using the filters. Subject, Age, and Methodology are especially helpful in APA PsycInfo.
Step 5: If you find too few results, try broadening your search by using an asterisk (divorc*), listing synonyms or related words (therapy or treatment), or changing the drop-down menu to TX All Text, which will search within the full text of documents.
Step 6: When you find a helpful article, search for the article in Google Scholar, and choose the Cited By link to see what other books/articles have cited it.
Step 7: Don't see the full text of the article? Try these options:
Set up your Ebsco account to save articles in folders across all Ebsco databases (e.g. Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete).