How to find Articles?
Use a Database to search for articles. Databases are indexes where citations to journal articles and other items can be searched.
How to find Full Text to Articles you locate in a Database?
Follow the Find It link in most databases to:
● access full text online
● check print holdings of the journal
● request an article PDF via Document Delivery/ interlibrary loan
The TTU Libraries hold a number of E-Journals and print journals, which can be found through the links below.
How to Prepare a Presentation
Go to the Texas Tech Identity guidelines Texas Tech University Identity Guidelines: Presentation Templates Download the PowerPoint templates on right side of screen.
Abstracts can be structured or unstructured
Example of structured abstract Structured Abstracts
Example of unstructured abstract Abstracts at The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
All abstracts should include purpose, methods, findings, implications.
Setting Google Scholar to work with the TTU Libraries allows you to use Google Scholar as your database, by allowing you to get the materials from the TTU libraries. Therefore the materials are creditable and reliable.
Step 1. To change the settings click on the three dashes
in the upper left corner.
Step 2. Click on
Settings at the bottom of the slide out menu.
Step 3. Click on Library links on far left.
Step 4. Type Texas Tech and nothing else.
Step 4. Click on the box to include Texas Tech Univ. Libraries - FT@TTULib.
Step 5. Click Save.