Journals

A journal is a publication that contains scholarly articles written by professors, researchers, or other experts in a subject area.

Journal Finder (Print & Electronic)

Accessing Journal Finder

From the new library webpage, click on “Journal Finder (Print & Electronic)” under “Find Articles” to access the journal finder.

Finding Journals and Articles

If you already have a citation, the new journal finder not only allows you to find journals but specific articles as well. To find journals you can search or browse for a known journal. To find known articles, you can use the “Article Finder” or click on a “Find Full Text” link from within an OpenURL compliant database.

Searching for Journals

The default first screen in journal finder is the search for journals screen. You can search for a known journal using keywords, a journal title, a database title (if you’re looking for a database and not a journal), subject and ISSN. After searching and finding your journal, you will be taken to a screen that tells you where to find full-text of the journal. It will look in BYU’s print journal holdings as well as our electronic journal and database holdings so that you only have to check one place to see if we have access to a journal. It will also tell you where journals are simply indexed but not available in full-text.

Browsing for Journals

To browse for journals (look through/search an alphabetical listing of journals) click on the “Browse” tab. You can browse search for known journals by searching “Journals by Title (Full Text)” (will only show journals we have full-text access to), “Journals by Title” (will show all journals we have access to regardless of whether we have full-text access or not), “Databases by Name” (if you’re looking for a database), “Journal Subjects,” and “Databases by Category.” The record will look identical to the record found using the “Search” for journals option.

Article Finder

The journal finder also allows you to find where we have full-text access to known articles. To do this, click on the “Article Finder” tab and fill out all the information you have for the article. For example, let’s say we are looking for the following article:

Bryant, Paul (1997). Cross-sectional determinants of New Zealand share market returns. Accounting and Finance. 37 (2): 181 – 205.

After filling out the article finder form, hit the “Find Article” button to look for full-text access. You will see that we have full-text access to this article through EBSCO. Simply click on the EBSCO link and you will be taken to the full-text of the article.

Searching from Within a Database

You can also do a journal finder search from within compliant databases. Compliant databases currently include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

To perform a search, simply find an article that is not available in full text in a compliant database and click on the “Find Full Text” link. For example, let’s say you were searching through Academic Search Premier and found the following article:

Daye, Anne (1998). Torchbearers in the English masque. Early Music. 26 (2): 246 – 262.

This is not available in full-text in Academic Search Premier, but if you click on the “Find Full Text” link you will be taken to the journal finder and be provided a direct link to the full-text of the article in your choice of either the ProQuest or JSTOR database.