Searching for journal articles in the public catalog (Open Access Journals)

Searching for Journal Articles or Journal Titles

There are three ways to access the collection:

1.) Performing a normal search and then click on the “Journal Articles” tab.

Desktop mode
  • Perform a search. In the search results page, click on the Journal Articles tab. Note that the open access collection is separate from the rest of your search results.
Journal Articles Tab
  • Article search results now replace the physical/e-media search results.
Journal Articles Results
Mobile and Accessibility modes
  • Perform a search. In the search results page, click on Journal Articles in the drop-down menu below the search bar.
Mobile Journal Articles dowp down
  • Article search results now replace the physical/e-media search results.
Journal Articles Results mobile

2.) Performing a search using the “Journal Articles” search target

Desktop Catalog
  • Select Journal Articles target from the drop-down menu and perform your search.
Journal Articles Target
  • The results will display journal articles only. There will be no physical/e-media results. To adjust the collection of items returned, change the drop-down selection to something else.
Mobile and Accessibility Modes
  • Click on Search Options, just below the search bar. Two drop-down menus appear above the search bar. In the Everything drop-down menu, select Journal Articles and perform your search.
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  • The results will display journal articles only. There will be no physical/e-media results. To adjust the collection of items returned, change the drop-down selection to something else.

Accessing a journal article

Click on View Article to be taken to the page that has the article. This will be an external link that opens in a new tab.

Citing a journal article

Should you want to cite an article, three standard citation formats are available: MLAAPA, and Chicago. In your search results, click on the Citation button, then the format you want, and the catalog will make it available for copying.

Desktop mode

Find the button to the right of the article title:

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If you open an article’s detailed display (by clicking on the title), the button will display in a slightly different location, but the Citation button will still display to the right of the article title.

Mobile and accessibility modes

Find the button in the “three dot” menu to the right of the article title:

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Select Citation.

Cite mobile

If you open an article’s detailed display (by clicking on the title), the three dot menu will display in a slightly different location, but will still be to the right.

3. Using the A-Z Journal Title Finder

The A to Z Journal Title Finder tool allows for both browsing and keyword searching of journal titles. A link to the journal finder is available on the front page of each library catalog. 

catalog front page
A-Z Tool

You can also search for journal article titles by Keyword, Title, Subject, Publisher, Country or ISSN.

A to Z title search