8.3 Full Text, Refine & Cite

Once you find an article or other resource that looks useful, click on the title to get more information.

Finding Full Text

To view the full text of an article click the link, Available Online. From the next page, click Full Text Availability. If you do not see these links, the library may not have access to the actual text of the article. Ask a Librarian Links to an external site. online or come to the Library Information desk Links to an external site. for assistance.

Remember, if you need to focus your results in OneSearch use the Refine your results menu. Use these filters to narrow or re-sort your results.

Refine results is on the left menu, "available online" link is below each result, and quotation mark icon is on the right of each result (to create a citation)

Citing your source

Use the quotation mark icon to retrieve the MLA citation for your source. Click Copy Citation to Clipboard and paste the citation into your document.

Important: Automatic citations are not always accurate! For example, your citation may be lacking italics, double spacing, and hanging indentation. Remember to compare the automatic citation to correct MLA style.