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Learn to search Discover to find articles for your assignments or research. Get scholarly or peer-reviewed articles, full-text articles online, review articles and newspaper articles.

To find articles you can get from the Massey library, start with Discover.

Go to Discover to get started

Find a specific article in Discover

If you need to read a particular article, you can search for the article title. In the reference, the article title comes first, followed by the journal title.

Search for the article title

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Go to Discover.

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Write the title of the article you want in the Search box. Make sure the words and spelling are exactly right.

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Put speech marks ("") around the title – Discover will search for the exact wording of the title and you will be more likely to find what you need.

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Click on Search to see the results.

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If you don’t see the article you need in the results (and the spelling is correct), try Google Scholar. Click on the Google Scholar link in Discover, either at the top right of the results or, if no results were found, below the search box.

If you can't find an article by searching for the article title, you can try searching in Discover for the journal it was published in.

If the journal is in the results, follow the links under 'Status' to see if the article you need is available.

Watch our video guide to searching for journal articles

Articles on your topic

You can use Discover to find articles on a topic for your assignments.

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Go to Discover.

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Write keywords for your topic in the Search box.

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Click on Search to see the results.

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Your results will probably include books and other types of resource, as well as articles. If you only want to read articles, look for results that say 'Academic Journal' or 'Periodical' under the title.

Learn how to find keywords for your topic

You may also want to try individual article databases suitable for your subject area, rather than searching many databases at the same time in Discover.

Find article databases in your subject area

Scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles

For your Massey essays and assignments, you'll probably need scholarly or peer-reviewed articles, also called academic or refereed articles.

These articles are reviewed by experts before publishing – so they're more reliable than many other sources.

In Discover, look for the ‘Academic Journal’ icon in the results, which shows on scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles.

You can also filter your results, so you see only the peer-reviewed articles.

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Find the Refine Results menu on the left of the results page.

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Under Limit to, tick the box that says Scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles.

Other article databases may have similar limits and icons.

Scopus only contains articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

Learn more about choosing reliable academic sources

Full text articles

Massey has the full text of most articles, which you can read online. If we have the full text of your article, you'll find links to it in the search results.

Look for links that include words like full text, PDF or similar.

‘Check for Full Text’ links take you to a screen where you can link to full text if available. Or, ask Library staff to find the article for you.

If an article isn't available online, the library may have it in print.

Search for the journal title in Discover. If it appears in the results with the location as a campus library, then it is in print.

You can click on the journal title and ‘Request an article from this journal’.

If you are on the same campus as the journal, you can find the journal yourself using the call number.

If Massey does not have the article you want, either online or in print, we may be able to get it from another library for you, using our interlibrary loan service.

Find out about interlibrary loans

Review articles

Review articles, or ‘literature reviews’, give an overview of the research on a topic. Good databases to search for review articles are:

Newspaper articles

As a Massey student, you have access to databases where you can read current and historical newspaper articles.

Current newspaper articles

Newspaper article databases may cover different regions, date ranges and so on. Look through our lists to decide which are the most useful for you.

Find current newspaper article databases

Discover is also good for finding newspaper articles. Limit your search results to 'News' under 'Source Types' in the column on the left.

Historical newspaper articles

Use any of these online databases to find newspaper articles from history.

You can also use the Index to New Zealand Periodicals – a print index that contains summaries of a wide range of newspaper articles published in New Zealand. There are three volumes:

Ask a librarian

We're here to help you find the resources you need for your study. Ask a librarian by email, over the phone, or at a service point in any campus library.

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