1. To get started, go the the Library homepage: https://www.mssu.edu/library. In the middle of the screen, click on the tab Search Everything. This will search through many of the Library's ejournals, ebooks, and databases.
2.Supply your keyword(s). Let's start with Hawaii.
3. To narrow down your results, you can supply additional terms. Click on Advanced Search.
4. For this example, let's look for articles on Hawaii and leprosy. Because resources may use either spelling, let's add the expander OR to include both Hawaii and Hawai'i in the first field. In the next field, let's add leprosy OR "Hansen's Disease". This will search for either term. Then, click on the Search button.
5. You can narrow your results even further by selecting limiters from the left side of the results page. For this example, we want Full Text as this will only return books and articles that are available in their entirety and Scholarly which will limit our results to those from peer-reviewed journals.
6. Once you have your results, you can click on a title for a detailed record, citation information, and a PDF or link to the full text.
7. You can click on the PDF to view this entire article.
8. You can find several citation styles that will cite the resource for you (but always double-check!)
9. A permalink is a URL that remains unchanged and is therefore preferable for re-locating the resource
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