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Family and Consumer Sciences: Find Articles

Use this guide as a starting point for research in the FCS disciplines.

Ryan Library Databases for FCS

Ryan Library Databases are subscriptions provided to the PLNU community for online access to journal and magazine articles and/or citations.

You will be asked to log in with your PLNU network information to access any of these databases.

Recommended databases for FCS research include:

These general databases may also provide relevant content:

Scholarly vs. Popular Articles

Requesting Articles from Other Libraries

InterLibrary Loan allows members of the PLNU community to request articles from another library.

Before you request an article, complete the following steps (in this order) to verify that the article is not available at PLNU:

  1. Find out if the journal is full text in one of our databases. 
  2. Find out if the journal (hard copy) is located in Ryan Library. 
  3. Use InterLibrary Loan to request the article. 

Do you work or attend classes at a PLNU location other than the main campus? Use the Interlibrary Loan form to request books or articles from PLNU's Ryan Library. 

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Google Scholar Search