Trying to find a journal?

And not sure where to start ?

This presentation will show you

How to find a journal

in UCT Libraries

You want to find this article:

The behavior of NaOH at the air-water Interface

Collin D. Wick and Liem X. Dang

Journal of Chemical Physics 133(2): 024705 (2010)

Article title

Authors

Journal title

Volume number

Issue number

Page number

Date

Start by looking for the electronic version

of the journal.

Our e-journals are all listed in the

e-Journal Portal …

Open the Libraries web site: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

Hover your mouse over Journals in the

top menu bar

Click on Electronic Journals

This will open up the e-Journal Portal …

journal chemical physics

Type in some keywords from the journal title

And click on Go

Your results screen shows all the journals that have your keywords in the title …

Journal of chemical physics is available in several

resources:

• Journal of chemical physics• Open chemical physics journal

Click on the journal’s

title

AIP Scitation Journals

EBSCOhost

AIP Journals

PubMed Central

SwetsWise

This opens a page of links to the these resources

Click Go for the resource

you want

Your journal opens …

Navigate to the volume and page of your article

133 024705

And you have your article …

Click to download

But, what if the Libraries don’t subscribe to the electronic version of the journal?

If you look for the journal …

Systematics and biodiversity

the e-Journal Portal will show this:

So you can’t access this journal on the web … BUT we may have a subscription

to the print version

ALEPH (the Libraries’ online catalogue)

will tell you if we get the print version …

Go to the Libraries home page and click on ALEPH

When the catalogue opens up ...

Click on Browse

In the Browse screen ...

Select Journal

Title

Open the dropdown menu that lets you

choose the index you want to browse in.

Type in the journal title

Systematics and biodiversity

And click GO

Click on journal

title

This opens the catalogue record for the journal ... The

Shelf Mark tells you where to look on the

shelves

The Holdings field tells you

which volumes we have

We have from

volume 1, issue 1

onwards

And remember, if you can’t find what you

are looking for …

the librarians are here to help you. Please just ask us!

Created by Fiona JonesJuly, 2010