Library Basics

Finding Articles

Articles from periodicals (magazines, newspapers, or scholarly journals) cannot be found in MILES.

To find an article on a topic, use a library periodical database such as

Academic Search Premier for magazines or journals
Lexis-Nexis Academic for newspapers

While articles can be found searching the public Web, articles that are found using a library database are:

From credible, published periodicals
Free to you (The library pays the subscription fee.)
Indexed, so that you can search through many years of thousands of articles to find a manageable list of specific articles that are relevant to your topic
The types of articles that your professors will expect you to use in your assignments

Many databases, and these two in particular, provide the full text of the article, which you can print, email or download.

When you are on campus you can access these databases simply by being logged in to the Marshall University network.

If you are off campus, you must login when prompted by entering your MU ID number (your “901” number) and your 4-digit PIN, which is your birthday (MMDD).