Finding Articles--Part 2
Finding the Text of Known Articles
Authored by Marianne Nolan and Ken Burhanna
The text only versions provide a linear presentation of the Hands-On flash modules. The Hands-On modules often incorporate images and interactive presentations to help demonstrate and support the text. These images and interactive features are lost in the text only format. Users can supplement their reading of the text versions by going onto the World Wide Web and visiting the web sites and doing the searches that the text indicates. This is most easily done by printing the text version and using it as a guide.
After completing this module you will:
1. Understand the Relationship Between Print and
Electronic Journals at the University Library
2. Know Where to Find Print and Electronic Journals at the
University Library
3. Be Able to Start with a Journal Citation and Find the
Text of an Article
Introduction
A common question librarians hear at the Reference Desk is:
"I have a citation. Now how do I find the article?"
This module will cover the basic steps to tracking down the text of an article (a known item) from its citation using the resources of the University Library at Cleveland State.
But first a little background on the University Library's journal collections.
1. Print and Electronic Journals at CSU
As recently as eight years ago, most journals were published strictly on paper, but today many journals are published electronically.
The arrival of online publishing has created an interesting dynamic between print and electronic formats, with some journals remaining available only in print, some available only online, and still others available in both formats.
The University Library owns access to journals in three basic formats:
-- Paper subscription: This is what you think of when you hear the words journal or magazine. These do not circulate. So users cannot access paper journals outside of the University Library.
-- Online subscription: Online equivalent of the paper version. Includes online table of contents. Often has added features available, like search interfaces and alerting services. Can be accessed via computer from outside the University Library.
-- Research database: Databases like Academic Search Premier and
Infotrac provide full text coverage of many (but not all) journals
in addition to indexing and abstracting them. These products
can be accessed via computer from outside the Library.
2. Where to Find Print and Electronic Journals at the University
Library
Paper subscription journals are located in two places at the University Library:
-- Current Periodicals: Journals from the past year or two are kept
on the 1st floor.
-- Bound Periodicals: After a couple years paper periodicals are
bound and then shelved on the 4th floor.
Current periodicals are located on the east end of the 1st floor in the University Library.
Bound periodicals are located on the north side of the 4th floor
in the University Library.
Where to Find Print and Electronic Journals at the University Library -
Look in Scholar to find Print journals and Online subscriptions to E-journals owned by the University Library.
Search by title for the journal you need.
The Journal Finder link on the Library's home page will help you
find journals regardless of whether they're available or in print.
This includes journals covered in fulltext databases.
Users can search by title for e-journals (and print journals too)
by entering the journal title in the "SEARCH journals by title"
search box.
Users can browse by subject for journals by using the "BROWSE
journals by SUBJECT" search box.
3. Using a Journal Citation to Find the Text of an Article
Here's the situation: You have found the citation to the following article, and you need to locate the text of the article (preferably online).
Welch, John R. and Ramon Riley. "Reclaiming Land
and Spirit in the Western Apache Homeland."
American Indian Quarterly 25.1 (2001): 5-12.
You will start your search by searching for the journal title, not
the article title.
Start by clicking on the Journal Finder link and searching for the
title of the journal you are looking for.
Now select "Title" for title search and type in the journal title, American
Indian Quarterly.
You should receive a listing of all the access points available for
American Indian Quarterly from the University Library.
You would see from the holdings details that the University Library has access to some volumes in print and some volumes over the Internet.
Which link would you select? Notice that years of coverage are identified
for each entry. First, you need to see if the year of your citation
is covered. You're looking for volume 25 from 2001.
It appears that all of the access points, except the first one for
the Library's print journals, potentially may provide coverage. But
the question remains, which link should you choose?
All but the link to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center go to databases
where some additional searching will be required. In this case the
link to OhioLINK will likely get you to the article you need the quickest.
Go ahead and click on this link now.
At the online version of American Indian Quarterly available through
OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center, click on the issue that contains
the article you're looking for. Remember, it's volume 25, issue 1.
We're now at the online table of contents page for issue 1 of volume
25 of American Indian Quarterly. The article title you're looking
for should be displayed. To view the article's text you would simply
click on the "Article Full Text PDF" link.
Here's another citation. See if you can locate it at the University Library. Write this citation down so you can refer to it!
Gribas, John and Cal W. Downs. "Metaphoric Manifestations of
Talking 'Team' with Team Novices." Communication
Studies
53.2 (2002): 112-129.
Start looking for this journal
Remember, start by searching for the title using Journal Finder.
Now enter the title you're looking for in the title search box. Remember,
you're looking for: Communication Studies.
In this case, your search should find three access points to Communication
Studies -- two are online through databases and the other is part
of the Library's print collection.
Let's pretend we're working from home and prefer online access if
possible. Click on the link for Expanded Academic ASAP. This is a
fulltext database that we will need to search to find the article
we need.
At the Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP database, first select "Keyword
search" from the column on the left.
Now type in "metaphoric manifestations" as keywords from the title.
To limit to these keywords in the journal we need, type the journal
title Communication Studies into the "by journal" field.
Now click the Search button to execute your search.
Because we entered such precise search terms, the database took us
directly to the article.
You can save this text to a disk, print it out, or read it online.
This concludes Finding the Full Text of Known Articles
