Using journals
What is a journal?Why use them?How do I find them?How do I find out what’s in them?What about referencing?
What is a journal?
According to the Concise OED “a newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject”
Also called Serials, Periodicals.Published daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly……Divided into volumes, parts and issues
Different types of journals
NewspapersPopular magazines aimed at the general
reader e.g. BBC Wildlife MagazineSerious scholarly publications containing
accounts of research projects or theories where articles are reviewed by other academics e.g. Royal Society of Chemistry journals
Why use them?
Good source of up to date material – or contemporary material
Research published more quickly in a journal than in a book.
Good source of more specialised material
Not everything makes it into a book
How do you find good ones to use?
Use Subject guides Library Catalogue Digital Library “find
e-journals” Recommendations Browsing
How do I get at the content?
Use Indexes and Databases.
Most are in the Digital Library
References to journal articles
Will contain Title and Author (s) of the Article
Title of the journalThe year of publication The Volume Number, Part and/or Issue
of journalPage numbers of Article
Article you want not in the Library?
Use Inter Library Loan (ILL)
Request form on the Library Catalogue
£1.00 per item Article sent direct to
your mailing address
Remember copyright ……
As a general rule, you are allowed to copy ONE article from any one issue of a journal.
Referencing
Guides available on the Library web site
HarvardOSCOLA (Law)APA
(Psychology)