Library and Internet Skills
Finding Journals in Library Catalogue
Introduction
Start out with a citation
The library catalogue can be used to look up the call numbers for titles of journals. It cannot be used to search for individual articles by author, title or subject. For information about searching for articles by author or subject please see How to Find Journal Articles.
A journal citation from a bibliographylooks like this:
Harris, Richard. "More American than the United States: Housing in urban Canada in the Twentieth Century,"Journal of Urban History. May 2000, v. 26 no. 4, pp. 456-471.
A citation from an online index/database may look like this:
TI: More American than the United States. Housing in urban Canada in
the twentieth century.
AU: Harris-R.
SO: Journal-of-Urban-History. 2000; 26(4): 456-478
.
Step 1: Look up the Title of the Journal in Library Catalogue
To locate the article from the citation above you need to use the Library Catalogue to look up the title of the journal.
Harris, Richard. "More American than the United States: Housing in urban Canada in the Twentieth Century,"Journal of Urban History. May 2000, v. 26 no. 4, pp. 456-471.
In this case the title of the journal is "Journal of Urban History."
To find out if the University of Toronto Library subscribes to the 'Journal of Urban History':
- Load the library catalogue.
- Click on "Browse" and then select "Periodical Title" from the drop down menu.
- Type in the title of the journal. Do not type in additional information
such as the volume or year.You will find a hitlist like this.
- Click on "Journal of Urban History" The first entry is for the print subscription to Journal of Urban History. The second and third entries are for online versions of the journal. To see where the journal is kept in the library click on the "Full Details" button for the first entry.
2) Find the journal
a) On the shelves of the library
Notice the Call Number line. This line tells you where the volumes of the journal are shelved as well as which volumes and issues are in our collection.
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Please note that journal records may differ slightly according to the library.
In most campus libraries, current issues of journals are shelved alphabetically by title in a Current Periodicals Reading Room. In most science libraries, and the OISE/UT library, back issues (that is, older issues) of journals are also shelved alphabetically by title. In Robarts Library, back issues of journals are shelved by call number with the books in the book stacks, floors 9-13. To find a back issue of "Journal of Urban History" at Robarts Library, you would write down the call number and go to the 11th floor.
b) Online
1.) Go to the library home page at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/ and choose "e-journals" from the drop down menu at the top of the page.
2) Enter 'journal of urban history' in the 'Find a title' box, or look it up alphabetically.
3) Follow the links until you find the volume and issue that you are looking for.
For Further Information
Tips on Printing, Saving and E-mailing from Electronic Journal Indexes and Full-Text Databases.
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