MARY WHISNER: Hi! This is Mary Whisner from the
Gallagher Law Library. I'd like to show
you how you can retrieve magazine
articles when you have a citation.
Magazines and journals from outside law
are often cited in legal scholarship. And
why not? They talk about many interesting
issues that are addressed by law. For
instance, here's a cover story in Time
Magazine about the battle over
transgender people's access to restrooms.
Here's a cover story from Scientific
American about women's equality, health,
wealth, and safety. Ms. Magazine has a
cover story about a detention center. The
Economist has a cover story about the
power of protest. And speaking of protest,
here's Time Magazine with a cover photo
of Colin Kaepernick. Finally, I throw into
the montage the American Journal of
Political Science. The cover isn't as
flashy, but sometimes you need to find
academic journals as well as magazines.
 How do you find them? This video will
show you how to find articles when you
have a citation. For instance, when you're
source gathering. Another time we'll talk
about how to find articles on a topic
you're researching. Suppose you're
looking for Rachael Corbett, "When
Medicaid Takes Everything You Own", that
was in the Atlantic Magazine October
2019, starting on page 72, and the author
is looking at a quotation on page 76.
Bluebook fans note that this is cited
according to Rule 16.5. Well if you
just Google it you get to an article
called Medicaid's Dark Secret. It's by the
same author, and you think, "Golly that's
close,
it's October 2019, it's the same author,
she's talking about Medicaid." And if you
look way to the bottom, you see "This
article appears in the October 2019
print edition with the headline 'When
Medicaid Takes Everything You Own.'" So you
go, okay I've got it, same article
different titles, web, print, I'm good. But,
the web version has no page numbers, and
it might be behind a paywall. Here's what
the paywall notices look like: one free
article this month; this is your last
free article; and we hope you've enjoyed
your free articles, why don't you
subscribe?
The solution is to use eJournals
from the University Libraries. We can go
to this website right here, and we can
either go directly to the UW Libraries
website from that URL, or if you start on
the law library, you can click on UW
Libraries, then UW libraries, you get to
the same place. Under Start Your Research
there's a link for E-Journals, and it
lists thousands of journals in
alphabetical order. We can search, and
here we see several entries for the
Atlantic. This one just says online
access; this one mentions a physical
location, the microforms and newspapers
micro films, as well as online access;
more online access; not much on this link.
Let's go ahead and click on the first
one.
Wow, the Atlantic has lots of options.
Gale Academic Onefile
has it from January 1984 through
December '93. It also has January and
February '95, but that's not what we need.
We scroll down, Newsbank Access might be
an option, EBSCOhost
Academic Search Complete — that's a
database I actually enjoy using — so I'm
going to choose that. It says it's available
from 1993. Typically that means starting
in 1993 and all the way up to the
present. We click on that, and we get
options here by year. I recall that my
article was in October 2019 so I can
just click on that, and I scroll through.
There are various articles, I don't see
mine yet. I go to the second screen.
"When Medicaid Takes Everything You Own",
and they give me three options. HTML
full-text
gives me some photos, and then the text
in just a plain text format. PDF full
text will give me PDF. The Flipster 
Digital Magazine is a different reading
experience, where you appear to be
flipping the pages. Let's just go look at
the PDF. This is great for source
gathering because it is laid out the way
it was in the original print, and you can
check the page numbers, you get all the
pictures, you get whatever graphics they
have, we have the PDF, we're good for it.
Now, those databases we looked at (the one
that only had some years and the one
that seemed to have something more
current), those are called aggregator
databases. They present content from many
sources. For example the Washington Law
Review is available in Lexis, and Westlaw,
and HeinOnline,
and Gale Academic Onefile, and EBSCOhost
Academic Search Complete, and others. It's
the same content, the same thing that the
editors of the Washington Law Review
worked so hard on, but it's available in
different databases.
The different databases have different
interfaces and features. Look for help
screens to see whether maybe they
require you to capitalize "and" when
you're using it as a connector. Look for
different features. They often cover
different years. 
For instance, HeinOnline covers all the
way back to volume one of most journals,
and Lexis and Westlaw have much shorter
coverage times. They also have different
formats.
Some have PDF, some have plain text. My
silly analogy is think about Cheerios.
You can get Cheerios at Safeway or QFC
or Costco, but Safeway has them on aisle
3, and QFC has them on aisle 11.
That's like different interfaces — you
have to learn your way around the
database. And only Costco has the huge
double box pack — that's coverage. Modern
publications are not as simple as they
were 100 years ago, or even 20
years ago.
There's the publication printed on paper,
like the monthly issue of the Atlantic,
or the daily issue of the New York Times.
There's the web version of that print
publication. We saw that with the
Atlantic article — the same article
appeared in the paper version and a web version.
And then there are extra features like
blogs and interactive maps and videos,
that only are on the website.
Sometimes when you need those you can
use Factiva. Factiva is an aggregator
database that gets information from
online newspapers and magazines. I dug
around in their database descriptors and
I found that they say they have the
Atlantic starting in 2010, but coverage
has been discontinued. But they don't say
when it was discontinued. They also have
TheAtlantic.com, that is, the website. 
"Exclusive print and online content from
TheAtlantic com providing analysis on
politics, business, science, and technology."
It's possible by exclusive, the editors
of Factiva mean they have a license to
cover that online content, and you won't
see it on other database aggregators.
Again, we can go to the University
Libraries. Back when we were looking at
the list of Atlantic possibilities, there
was this entry that didn't look like
much: "The Atlantic: dates unknown". Let's
click on it. This is Factiva. Says it's
available from 2010.
By default they show us the oldest first.
I'm going to search for the most recent.
And you see, they include something from
June 11th (I'm recording this on June
12th, by the way), June 11th, June 11th, June
11th,
June 9th, so they're picking up all these
posts that are in-between the monthly
print issues. If we search hard enough, we can find that
article, it has the same title that the
web version did, it has the same little
note at the end that it originally
appeared in the print edition with a
different title, and we get no pictures.
But at least we can get the the words
from the web version. To recap, to find
journals online, go to the University
Libraries list of eJournals. You might
need to choose from among multiple
aggregator databases. If you're looking
for something that was only on the
website,
Factiva might be the good source for you.
This has been Mary Whisner, from the
Gallagher Law Library. Please see our
website for library services, research
guides, and more. That URL is lib.law.uw.edu
