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ENG 110 Sec. B01, B02 & 17 (for Donnelly) Fall 2025

College Writing I

Finding Articles Using Primo (Library's Discovery Tool)

Starting from the Library's home page:

 

  • go to "Advanced Search"

Primo search box, arrow to advanced search

 

  • search for "Articles"
    • enter your terms and phrases in search boxes
    • use quotations around phrases; single word terms do not need quotations around them
    • databases usually retrieve search results that include plurals of terms
    • use the * (asterisk) to get various endings of words, e.g., statistic* retrieves statistic, statistics, statistical, statistically
    • note: think of terms and phrases to use; some not so obvious possibilities: statistics, data, debate, issues, controversy, argument

Arrows to: search for articles, add a new line, search. Use quotations to search as a phrase. Capitalize ANDs to narrow search. Capitalize ORs to broaden search. Use asterisk to get various endings of term.

 

 

  • on the results page refine your search
    • select publication dates, and other options as you choose, e.g., peer-reviewed journals, resource type: articles

arrows to: refine your results, show only, peer-reviewed journals if needed, publication date, refine publication date, resource type, articles

 

 

  • you can refine your results further, e.g., subject(s)
    • sometimes one or two at a time, works best

arrows to: subject, selected subjects, apply filters

 

 

  • at the top of the filters column, you can see your active filters
    • the X will remove a filter
    • or you can reset

arrows to: active filters, x to remove filter, reset filters

 

 

  • to see more information on a search result, click on the title

to see more information click on the article title

 

  • to access the article
    • note the DETAILS for more information on your selection
    • select a database to retrieve it from, then follow the links to the article

Circled: view online full text availability. See the details for this article. Select a database to retrieve the article from (there may be a choice of more than one database), then follow links to the article.