Library Research Tutorial: Adapted from Canvas Course

Search Journals for full-text availability

Not all databases will display a link to full text and you may discover relevant article citations through other research methods. How can you determine whether the UNK Library has access to a journal or magazine referenced within an article citation?
 

The best approach is to search the Journals tool, which is available by clicking on "Journals" from the Library homepage Resources menu (as shown below).

In the following example, we'll use the Journals tool to determine whether UNK has access to the journal article in this citation:

Shiovitz-Ezra, S., & Leitsch, S. A. (2010). The Role of Social Relationships in Predicting Loneliness: The National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. Social Work Research, 34(3), 157–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/34.3.157
 

Based on this citation, we'll search the Journals tool for the title of Social Work Research.

Avoid this frequent mistake: Some students will mistakenly enter the article title (i.e. "Do preschool programs affect...") into the Journals search box and find disappointing results.

Instead: When searching the Journals tool, be sure to enter the periodical title, that is, the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper in which an article was published (i.e. Social Work). Many sources will cite the periodical title in italics font.

The Journals tool will return several journal titles beginning with the words "social work." The closest matching title is pictured below. Note the varying coverage dates listed on each line.

Once inside EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier, you could follow the date/issues links (as shown below) to access the specific issue of volume 34, issue 3, as noted in our citation.

As an alternative, we could also click "Search within this publication" to search this specific journal by the article's title (i.e. "The role of social relationships in prediciting...").