Search Tips
Search by keywords/phrases and use Boolean searching. What's Boolean?
AND: "adult education" AND program*
OR: "adult education*" OR "adult learning"
Using "Quotation Marks" searches words as a phrase.
Limit search results by Date and Peer-Reviewed journals.
Truncation searches variations of a word. The symbol used is asterisk *.
"ADULT LEARN*" will retrieve: adult learning, adult learner, adult learners, etc.
Check Subject terms in database records and Author-Supplied keywords in the fulltext of some articles to see if there are any synonym terms to consider.
Searching for Full Text
If you come across a citation to an article and you'd like to track down its full text, follow the steps below:
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Start Your Research (SYR)1. When searching for the full text of an article, start by searching the "title of an article" (enclosed in "quotation marks") in SYR.
Example Citation: Baumgartner, L. M., & Shang, L. (2025). The portrayal of women in Adult Learning. Adult Learning, 36(3), 139–148.
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Journals/Periodicals2. If you're unable to locate the fulltext by searching the article title in SYR, next try searching the "journal title" in Journals/Periodicals, which is a searchable list of print/online journals accessible through the University Libraries.
Example Citation: Baumgartner, L. M., & Shang, L. (2025). The portrayal of women in Adult Learning. Adult Learning, 36(3), 139–148.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)3. If the Library does not have print/online access to a journal you need an article from, request a copy of the article via ILL.