Evaluating Journal Articles

Passkey

If you are doing research off campus, you can access the full-text of many books and articles by going through the Cornell library catalog or through databases. You will be asked to authenticate with your NetID and password.

If you choose to do research by searching the Internet or using Google Scholar, you will not automatically be taken to the full text of articles. Sometimes, you go to the publisher's page and are informed that you can access the article if you pay a fee (this is known as a paywall).

To make it easier to get full text access off campus, it is recommended that you install Passkey into your browser. Then when you hit a paywall, you just click on the Passkey icon and it changes the URL of the article so that you are recognized as a Cornell affiliate and allows you to access the content for free. However, this only works if Cornell subscribes to the journal! Not everything is available with Passkey.

Consult the library guide on Passkey for more information about installation.

Using Databases to Find Articles

Library databases provide an efficient way to locate journal articles on enology and viticulture related topics. Not all databases have the same interface, but almost all use some kind of search box and have tools that help limit your search.

Many of the articles you find using a database will be available to you in full-text (often as a PDF). Sometimes you will need to click on the
Get it! Cornell icon to locate the actual article. Reference librarians can assist you with questions about obtaining documents.