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Step 4: Determine if the Library Owns the Journal

A. Make sure you have the complete title of the journal. If all you have is an abbreviation from a print index, look at the front of the index for the abbreviations key. For science databases with abbreviations, check the keys to journal abbreviations (various titles available in Reference) to find the full title of the journal. Otherwise, ask at the Information Desk for help.

B. Go the library catalog SAGE main menu and select the Journal Title tab.

C. Use the image of Electronic Journals link to Citation Linker (hyperlinked words) Citation Linker (Find e-Journals) to see if there is full text version of the article available from a CSU database or owned electronic journal. Minimum information necessary is journal name or ISSN; adding date/year enhances search results. If no full text is available, continue with Step D, searching SAGE. ( SAGE is also an option some of the time: after pressing the FindIt@CSU (SFX) button to search. The initial SAGE search will be by ISSN number, but if that does not find the journal, try the other steps described in Step D.)

Put as much information as you have into the boxes; a useful amount of information to get to an article is the journal title, date, volume, and start page. However, in some cases FindIt@CSU will take you to a journal's page or to a database page and you have to find the article within that journal or database.

Or start by searching SAGE (step D).

This is what the Citation Linker, called Find e-Journals looks like:

image of Citation Linker search boxes

Note: the Citation Linker option is not available on the telnet version of SAGE.

D. Select/type:
Web SAGE
Telnet SAGE
 
image of Journal Title tab
J

Type in exact title of the journal/magazine and press enter (or Search button [Web only])

-->If the Journal search doesn't work, try a Title search, again typing in exact title of journal.
      Title // T
-->If the search for the title does not work, do a Keyword Search using keywords from the title:
      Keyword // W
If the Keyword Search pulls up too many, Modify search // Limit the search by MATERIAL type: // Type of publication "SERIALS," or do another Keyword // W search and add the word "periodicals" to your search.
For example: Keyword // W writing and periodicals

If the Word search does not work AND the journal title contains the name of an organization, do an Author/Title // Browse combined Author/Title search. In Web SAGE do the search from the Keyword search tab; change the "Any Field" drop down menus to Author and Title:

image of Keyword Author/Title search in SAGE

or within a Keyword search as A: author and T: title word. For example:

      image of Word Search box image of a:(British Ecological Society) and t:(Bulletin)--this is an author/title search

In telnet SAGE, type B and then the name of organization, press enter; then type the first word or keyword from title and press enter.

E. Look for owned issues in the boxed part of the full record. It will show the call number, location, volumes owned, format (print or microform), and if there is a current subscription.

Select image of "View additgional copies or search for a specific volume/copy" button in SAGE on Web SAGE (or type V in Telnet SAGE) to verify the location of the specific volume/years you want . The reason for this is that the same journal could be in more than one of the following places:

  • JOURNAL ROOM (current two years for most journals),
  • MOVEABLE SHELVES (bound volumes),
  • MORGAN (stacks),
  • STORAGE (request volume by pressing Request/Hold // G and following the instructions: your ID number is your student/faculty/staff number; you select your PIN number, but you must remember it),
  • MICROTEXT (Microform collection), and/or
  • REFERENCE, or another Library building such as ATMOS or VET.

Select Latest Received to see what is in the Journal Room:

image of current receipts of journal issues

image of journal locations listed in library catalog

Bound volumes:

image of SAGE record Moveable Shelves locations

CSU journals are arranged in call number order so be sure to write the call number down along with the location of the specific volume you need. Check to see if volumes in MORGAN, MOVEABLE SHELVES, and STORAGE are "AVAILABLE" because they can be checked out. (Checked out volumes will have "DUE 00-00-00.")

To find out if there is an electronic version of the journal or magazine, click on the button and the image of FindIt@CSU logo at top of FindIt screen page will be displayed. This page shows the same information that filling in the Citation Linker/Find e-Journal page (shown above) finds.

F. See staff at the Information Desk or a College Liaison librarian if having difficulties.

Note: if CSU doesn't own a journal and there is a specific article you need, request the article electronically through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL is done electronically from the Libraries Home Web Page via "InterLibrary Loan."

Go to Step 5: Locate the Journal Go back to Step 3

How to do Research ||| How to Find Articles

Content: Naomi Lederer