To access a journal article you can use its full reference to work your way through the library pages to the full text of the article.

The details of the full reference can be gained from a bibliography, reference section or even Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.uk/) by searching for the article title then accessing the article information page.

This activity assumes that you know how to read a journal article reference.

This activity will use the reference:

Berndt, T.J. (1982). ‘The Features and Effects of Friendship in Early Adolescence’, Child Development, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1447-1460.

Usually all you need are the name of the journal, the year the article was published, the volume and issue the article appear in and the page numbers of the article (or the article title/author names).