Electronic or Paper?

In the past, indexes in a paper format would provide the author and title information for an article along with information on the journal or proceedings the article appeared in.  There might also be an abstract that summarized the article's main points.  As indexes move to the electronic environment, more and more indexes are including an option to view a full-text electronic version of an article.   In these cases, you can search for articles on your topic and then read the article from your computer.  You may not even have to come to the library.  As yet, not all indexes include this option and older articles are less likely to be available electronically. 

Because we purchase access to these indexes and to the full-text of articles when possible, access to this information is limited to current UT Austin students, faculty and staff members.
 

LOCATING AN ARTICLE NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE

If the articles you have selected from the indexes are not available online, you will need to check UTNetCAT to see if the UT Austin libraries subscribe to the journal the article is in and find out what library you have to go to.  Remember when you search to see if the article you are looking for is going to be available on campus, you need to search UTNetCAT for the title of the journal or conference proceedings that the article appears in.  This sounds confusing but UTNetCAT does not know what articles are contained in a journal or conference proceedings; it will only tell you if we have the journal or conference proceedings.