Finding journals in the Libraries
What are journals?
Journals (or periodicals or serials or magazines) are publications which come out regularly ? once or 4 or 12 or 52 times a year. They are collected into volumes once or twice a year and then bound up together.
The two campus libraries subscribe to around 600 different print journals. In addition, the Library has subscriptions to collections of electronic, full-text journals containing some 8,000 additional titles accessible via computer only.
Where are print journals found?
In both libraries, print journals are displayed and shelved in alphabetical order of the full title. For example:
- Health is under H;
- Journal of Health Services Research is under J;
- Sociology of Health and Illness is under S.
At Newton Park, the current issue of each journal is displayed opposite the Information Point. Older issues are held in the Journals Room. Usually, journals older than 1980 are shelved in the Store which is in the cellars under Main House. These journals can be requested on a card available at the Information Point.
At Sion Hill, the current issues of journals are displayed in the entrance area and the back issues are in the rolling stack.
At Corsham Court all print journals can be found in the Journals Room opposite the Reading Room.
Where are print and electronic journals listed?
The electronic and print journals are listed on the library's web pages under journals listings. There, you will find two listings:
- Library journals in print are listed on the catalogue. There is information about what years of a journal the library holds in print and whether the journal is available electronically and links to those that are.
- List of electronic journals where you can look up a particular title and link to it directly. Note that you can't search the contents of journals by this means.
Some electronic services list the journals they cover, for example, Academic Search Elite, NewsBank and JSTOR.
Recognising journal articles in reading lists
In module handbooks, etc., journal articles can be recognised by the elements listed. They will have an author, the year of publication in brackets and a title (like books) then will come the journal title (often in italics), the volume number, issue number and page numbers of the article within the volume. For example:
- Bradbury, J (2002). The third way: where next for New Labour? Politics Review, 12 (1) 20-23
There may be variations of style but, essentially, this is how they will appear. Individual articles are not on the catalogue or web pages, only journal titles.