Finding Article, Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Library 150Week 6

Finding articles on a topic Use the Library databases, NOT the Library Catalog to find articles Library subscribes to 125+ databases Library does not have every title covered

Library - 2K+ print and 10K+ online titles Databases may provide: bibliographic info on article - author, title,

journal/magazine/newspaper title, page #s a short summary of article, called an abstract the text of the articles

Database Finder

Databasesby type

If you already knowwhich database

you need

Databasesby subject

Using Databases Off-Campus

Sample: EBSCOhost AcademicSearch Premier Search Screen

Searchstatements

Fieldlimiters

Booleanlogic

Scholarly journals only

DON’TDON’Tlimit to full-text.

Use SFXSFX

Sample: EBSCOhost Academic

Search Premier Results Screen

Check SFXSFXfor availabilityNumber of articles

Marking/taggingrecords

Full-textlinks

Key information: NAME OF SOURCE One can find an article, even if you do not

know the article title or author, with: title of magazine, journal or newspaper issue information: volume, issue (if

applicable), year and month/season (if applicable)

page number(s) To find print or online copy of magazine,

journal or newspaper title, try SFX

or journal tab

Locating Magazine, Journal& Newspaper Articles

Locating Magazines,Journals & Newspapers

Try the SFX link if available first link should be full-text, if available check Print Holdings or Periodical’s Finding List order using Interlibrary Loan link

In Library catalog, click JournalsJournals tab Search for the journal NAME

American Journal of Physiology - NOT title of article If Library has journal, link to catalog will show:

CALL NUMBER for print copy All print magazines, journals & newspapers are on Level A

DATABASE NAME for online version

OR

Differences between Journals and Magazines In-Class Exercise We’ll do this together as a class http://www.calstatela.edu/library/libr15

0/inclass/week6journalsvsmagazines.doc