Finding Articles

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

From our print collection available in the library. Some of these print journals are also available electronically.
Links to these electronic journals are also available in Medline via the Clinicians Health Channel (CHC), hence, when accessing Medline, you will view full text access to e-journals provided through the CHC plus those subscribed to by the library.
The Library also includes useful journals that provide free full-text access on the Internet.

Journal articles can be retrieved in the following ways:

PRINT:
From journals held in the library's collection.
USING SUBJECT INDEX
Through searching electronic index databases such as CINAHL, Medline and PubMed. These provide citations with abstracts and also links to full text. Medline , via the Clinicians Health Channel, has links to the Ronald Lowe Library's e-journal holdings.
FULL-TEXT SEARCHING
From accessing our electronic journal list available from the Library website.
Also from journals available electronically over the Internet, some at a cost and others free. Links to these e-journals may be available from index databases, library catalogues, or other websites.
CONTENTS SEARCHING
Journal publishers offer journal article retrieval through keyword searching from their websites. This means that their journal contents can be searched on the Internet for keywords in their titles. Some of these are provided free and some require a fee.

The Library currently offers the following index and full text databases that you can search:
* Available through the Clinicians Health Channel:

Select the database MEDLINE from the library's homepage
Conduct your search using the appropriate keywords from your topic. Select LIMITS (e.g. by publication date, language, etc.) to achieve targeted results.
View full text if provided. If not provided, check to see if the Library holds the print journal. If this is not available, provide the citation to the Librarian and request for Inter-Library loan.
View a Medline Interactive Tutorial
OR
Select PubMed and conduct your search using the appropriate keywords from your topic. Click on LIMITS to refine your search.
View PubMed Tutorial (Select "Using PubMed" on the left side bar)
OR
Select the appropriate journal titles from the Library's electronic journal list.

Check to see if the Library holds the print journal or the electronic version
OR
Select the appropriate journal title from the Clinicians Health Channel A-Z Journal list and conduct your search using the appropriate keywords from your topic.
OR
Select JOURNALS from PubMed screen and search using appropriate keywords.
(see: PubMed Tutorial - select "Using PubMed" on the left side bar).

Select the electronic journal that best represents your subject and search it. Most journals allow you to search by author.
OR
Search Medline through the Clinicians Health Channel by author. View a Medline Interactive Tutorial
OR
Search PubMed by author. View PubMed Tutorial