Locating a journal through the library catalog

This section describes how you locate a journal through the library catalog. There are two instances when you will want to do this. 1. You have been trying to access an online journal for a citation you found in a database. You have clicked on an "Article" link or a "Journal" link and it did not work correctly. 2. You found a citation in a journal article, book or other source and you would like to see if we have the journal.

From the Library Homepage click on the Library Catalog link.

Next click on the "Journal Finder (journals, magazines and newspapers)" link.

Enter the title of your journal.

In the example below the journal title is Communication Research.

In this screen shot the title has been entered:

The Results - How to interpret them: For each journal it will indicate if we have this journal in the library, in what format(s) we have it and if we have more than one copy of it.

The red arrow coming from the left points to "McConnell Library." "McConnell Library" means that we have a hard copy of the journal and that is physically in the library in either print, microfilm or microfiche. "McConnell Library" indicates that that format is not online. Usually it is preferable to look at the online version if it is available. If you only see the words "McConnell Library" then no online version is available you will have to look at the hard copy version. I have a "McConnell Library" link, how do I find the hard copy (not online) of the article?

If you see more than one link under your journal title it means we have the journal in more than one format. If a link states anything other than "McConnell Library" it is available online. For Communication Research there are four different online options. These are EBSCOhost, Sage Publications, Business & Company Resource Center, and InfoTrac OneFile.

The next step is to check the dates the journal is available for.

Check you citation for the date you want. Here the date is June 1, 2005.

The top arrow coming from the right indicates a date range of 02/01/1999 to present and the bottom arrow indicates a date range from 06/01/1997 to 12/01/1998.

Hence, you will only be able to find your journal using EBSCO or Sage Publications. Click on the link to get to the journal. For information on how to search a journal for a particular article click here.