Library Tutorial - Finding Full Text - Scholarly Journals

Example 2

TI: Collateral costs of imprisonment for women: Complications of reintegration
AU: Dodge-Mary, Pogrebin-Mark-R
JN: Prison-Journal 81, (1), pp. 42-54..
PY: 2001
IS: 0032-8855
AB: This study, in a special issue of the journal on Female Offenders: Imprisonment and Reintegration, addresses issues of family separation and community isolation as experienced by women on parole. Qualitative data, based on unstructured, in-depth interviews with 54 former inmates, offer retrospective reflections and current accounts that delineate many of the unintended costs of imprisonment. Respondents related the difficulties they experienced regarding parenting, relationships with family and friends, and community reintegration. Social stigma and self-shame are important definitional and reactional elements of their efforts to reestablish social bonds. The collateral costs of imprisonment were related to a diminished investment in self and others that is the product of continued internal and external shaming.
DE: FEMALE-OFFENDERS; Collateral-costs-of-imprisonment
DT: Journal-Article

This example shows another way a database may format a citation. Rather than presenting it as you do in a bibliography, the database gives the citation in an alternate format. Two-letter codes indicate parts of the citation (TI for title, AU for author(s), JN for journal name etc.)

To retrieve this article, you need to find out whether McConnell Library has access to the journal in which the article appears. If you are in a database, look for a "Find Full Text" link. Clicking on this link will check the library catalog to see if Radford has the journal online or in print. Sometimes the full text of the article will automatically appear on the screen. Most times, you will be brought to a screen detailing which databases (if any) have the journal online, if the library has a paper copy, or if we do not have access to that particular journal at all.

If you are not in a database when you find a citation, look for the journal in the library catalog to see if we own it online or in print.

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