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Notes Academic Journals: "Peer-reviewed" or Always year, volume InfoTrac's Expanded
Psychobiology "refereed" and issue # Academic ASAP (click
Journal of Popular Technical language of Sometimes season on "to refereed
Culture the field Usually 4–6 times a publications")
Nursing Management Often non-profit, year Ebsco's Academic
Studies in Short Reports of original Long articles and Search Premier (click
Fiction research or thought bibliographies on "peer reviewed")
Journal of Marriage Literary criticism, Difficult language, Other specific
and the Family Case Studies, No advertising, few disciplinary indexes
Literature reviews, pictures like PsycInfo, Science
methods, results, Direct, ACM Digital
discussions Library. (see complete
Charts, graphs, tech. alphabetical list under
drawings, "Articles, Indexes,
Databases")

10.1.2 Periodical Collection

The Library subscribes to a comprehensive range of periodicals. Some of these are in print
format, while an increasing number of periodicals are available electronically and are known as
electronic journals. The electronic journals are accessible from the Electronic Journals page.
These are shelved in alphabetical order by title of the periodical within four collections:
Arts

Science and Engineering
Social Science
Theology
Where a print title is also available electronically, this is indicated by the letter E against the title
tag.

Notes Please note that only some back issues are available electronically.

10.1.3 Locating and Borrowing Periodicals

The library catalogue lists all print and some electronic journals held by the Library. It is
accessible from all PCs in the Library and any PC with internet access. In order to find articles
about a specific topic, you will usually search Library databases or abstracting and indexing
services by topic.

While a number of electronic journals are not listed on the library catalogue they are accessible
from the Electronic Journals page. The listing allows you to access an article by following links
from the title to the full-text of the article.

Did u know? A guide to electronic journals is available online.
To locate a specific article, you should know:
periodical title
volume number and issue number in that volume

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