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Moody Library and Student Athletes: Finding Specific Journal Titles

A library research guide geared to student athletes. Includes travel tips for study plus much more.

Finding Specific Journal Titles

To find specfic journal titles, I have several suggestions. The most prolific is a product called A-to-Z Publication Finder. The library has over ninety databases leading to over 45,000 journals (not articles but specific journals). A-to-Z Publication Finder shows you which databases carry that journal title. Here is what it looks like.

 

 

 

AtoZ will find specific journal titles or titles with a portion of a word in the title such as education or nursing. If do this, you will get results which look like this:

 

 

As you see, you will get a much longer list of selections. This search yields 540 journal titles with the term "education" in the journal title. From this point, you simply click on the database to proceed.

CAVEATS

  1. Notice the journal in the above list entitled Accounting Education News. It has an ugly seven letter word that we don't like using called "embargo." That means that full-text articles are not available from that database for the timeframe specified. Anything before that date will be available.

  2. Just because a journal is on this list adn the library has access to full-text articles, does not equate to 100% full-text availability.You may occassionally find a database that only displays the citation (with or without abstract) only. Full-text may not be possible for because of copyright issues between the journal and the publisher.  In some instances, it is possible that a publisher may grant permission for one database but not another. In some cases, a publisher will not allow full-text use to a journal at all. You may see multiple listings for a journal but they all are citation-only. If you cannot gain full-text access and you are interested in an article, then you will need to use the Interlibrary Loan form option (if one is available) or use the Journal Article InterLibrary Loan Request Form or the Book InterLibrary Request Form.

  3. If you don't see your journal, you can try search the Classic or Aquabrowser catalogs to see if it is listed there. Remember, journals are still come in other non-digitized formats including print and micfrofiche.