When you find a really good article to support your research, you may wish to find additional sources from the article’s works cited list. Or maybe your professor gave you a citation and asked you to find and read the full article. But how can you find these sources?
You can use the Citation Resolver to find full text articles, if the library has access. Just type or copy and paste the full citation into the first box, and select the Resolve Citation button. The resolver will assess the information and display its "best guess" for the author, article title, journal title, and publication year. For best results, you may need to make some changes if the resolver mixes up the article and journal titles. Once the publication information is correctly identified, click the search button, and the resolver will retrieve any articles that match the publication information listed.
Remember that Citation Resolver is designed to locate articles, but it may not be able to locate book chapters, dissertations, or other resources. If you are looking for one of these, please call or come visit the Reference Desk for assistance.
If you are looking for a specific article, but you don’t have the full citation, Citation Resolver may be able to help you find the full text despite the missing information. For example, if you know the author’s last name and article name, you can enter this information in the appropriate fields, and Citation Resolver will retrieve all the articles that match the information you provide.
Please note, if the author’s name is very common and the article title is only one or two words, the resolver may retrieve many results that you will have to sift through to find the specific article needed. However, the more publication details that you can provide, the more likely the resolver can pinpoint the specific article you seek. If your search results do not include a link to the full text in pdf or html, look for the "Full Text Finder" link. This should direct you to the full text if it is accessible through any library database.
If Citation Resolver is not retrieving the full text article, but you are sure the library has it, don't despair. Try searching Publication Finder for the journal title to see which databases provide access. Once you select a database, you can drill down to the desired volume and issue to find your article. If Publication Finder does not retrieve the journal title, then the library does not have full text access to the journal. In this case, you can request your article through Interlibrary Loan. If ever in doubt, please call or come visit us at the Reference Desk, or send us an email.
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In support of UCA’s education majors, the library maintains a collection of children’s books and resources to serve as a learning lab for teachers in training. The Children’s Collection helps students develop an understanding of what kind of resources they can use to build teaching curricula. The collection includes everything from easy picture books to the latest young adult fiction, as well as nonfiction and manga.
We began our journey with the first Scroll, printed in 1915; eight years after the University of Central Arkansas, then known as Arkansas State Normal School, was founded. Back then, the Scrolls were barely a hundred pages, and the senior graduating class sizes were roughly around forty to fifty students, which is about 2% of UCA's graduating class in 2016. The faculty consisted of around twenty professors. Not only did the yearbook include portraits of the students and faculty, but also short stories, poems, and comics written by the students. Literary societies, which predated modern day fraternities and sororities, were quite popular and advocated good writing skills. UCA students have participated in athletic competitions since 1908, and photographs of the various teams can be found in all Scrolls from 1915 to current. In the back of each Scroll are the traditional advertisements. 
As we progress through the years, the Scroll begins to thicken with pages as more and more students attend the university and have their pictures printed in the yearbook. The graphics and material change as photography and technology advance. The oval portraits are exchanged with the rectangles we see today, and names are connected to faces. Information about each student's degree, as well as club and society memberships, are included under the student names. Clubs come and go, second-semester students are added, and awards and acknowledgments appear. 
As photography and printing become less expensive, the number and variety of photos increase. Photos of students studying, going to games, and partying frequently appear on the pages. It’s interesting to note that though decades separate the first students from the most recent students, their goals and aspirations seem to have changed little. Social events climb in numbers, and we have elected various beauty queens, not to mention the Who’s Who of the university. Clubs like the literary societies become extinct, while fraternities and sororities grow in size and numbers. 
