Asian Studies

Clicking the MHC Get It button for an article will help you locate the full text.

• If available online: click direct link to go to the full text article online
• If available in print: double check the years the library owns, find the article in print alphabetically by title (recent journals are in the reading room, older journals are on floor 2 1/2)
• If neither option is available at MHC: click "Request from another library" to have it delivered electronically through the ILLiad, inter-library loan service.

Scholarly journals are also called academic, peer-reviewed or refereed journals. These are journals that academics submit articles for other scholars, experts or academics peers in the field to review and comment. These reviewers must agree that the article represents properly conducted original research or writing before it can be published.

What to look for:

• abstract (descriptive summary)
• footnotes or bibliographies
• institutions author(s) are from, ex. universities, research institutions, think tanks
• main point is to report on original research or experimentation

Examples of scholarly journals: 

American Economic Review

Applied Geography

Archives of Sexual Behavior

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Want to learn more? Visit this site from the Cornell University Library.

1. Search for your article in Discover (if you don't find it there, try Google Scholar)
2. Use the MHC Get It button to locate the full text.

Click on in Discover to have an item sent from another Five College library to MHC.  You will get an email when it arrives. Pick it up at the MHC circulation desk and return it there when you are done.

From Google Books, Worldcat or the library databases, click the MHC Get It button   then select "Request from another library."