Find a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper
Due to copyright laws, not all databases own the
legal right to reproduce all articles full-text. If a particular article
is not full-text in a database, if may very well be full-text in another
database or we could own a paper or microfilm subscription. To find out
if the article is full-text online or in paper, here's how you use the Journal
Locator:
- Type in the name of the journal, magazine, or newspaper in the search
box and click on Submit. For example, do a search for Newsweek.
- If matches for a name are found, the results are displayed in a table.
- The Holdings section of the table shows the start date (and sometimes
end date) for a particular title. For example, the first entry for Newsweek
lists holdings from 01/01/1990- with no end date, so that full-text subscription
in the database "Academic Search Complete" is from 1990 through
to the present. If you needed the January 1996 issue, it would be included.
Another entry for Newsweek lists holdings from
v. 1 (1933)-current and is labeled
MF for microfilm. This means the library physically
owns the microfilm for this journal for those years. You can make photocopies
of the article from our microfilm reader/printers on the 4th floor of Moody
Learning Center on the SAC campus or save images of the article to a diskette.
- The Database section of the table indicates in which database a
particular title can be found full-text. Just click on the name of the database,
do a journal or publication search in that database, then browse to the volume/issue you
need. Also, once you get into the database, you could search for the exact article title, author,
or keywords to locate your article in the database.
If Catalog is listed in the Database
section, then click on the Catalog link to see where the physical paper
or microfilm copies of that title live. SAC subscriptions to paper or microfilm
copies of journals, magazines, and newspapers live on the 4th floor of Moody
Learning Center on the SAC campus.
