Search Tips: Searching Journals
What am I searching in Journals?
When one does a “Journal” search, it is a search to locate or identify specific “journal” titles. It is not a search for individual articles located within the “journal.”
In addition to identifying or locating the titles of standard academic journals and magazines, a “journal” search can be used to locate many other types of “ongoing” publications.
Some Types of Publications Located Using a “Journal” Search
Periodicals
- Journals
- Magazines
- Newsletters
Serials
- Newspapers
- Proceedings
Transactions
- Annuals
- Yearbooks
- Directories
- Numbered monographic Series
- Government published series
- Looseleaf services
Other Continuing Resources
- Periodical indexes
- Abstracting services
- Some subscription databases
*Note: selecting the “journal” filter in “Everything” Search results will limit your results to the same types of “ongoing” publications.
Sample Journal Searches
Searching by “Journal” Title
Journal Search= journal of policy history
Journal Search= index chemicus
Journal Search= index medicus
Journal Search= european transactions on telecommunications
Journal Search= congressional record
Journal Search= federal register
Journal Search= congressional quarterly
Journal Search= standard federal tax reporter
Searching Organization Name or “Journal” Publisher
Journal Search= transcultural nursing society
Journal Search= world health organization
Journal Search= amnesty international
Journal Search= CQ
Journal Search= "IEEE computer society"
Searching by “Journal” Keywords or Subjects
Journal Search= proceedings linguistics
Journal Search= statistic* AND criminal*
Journal Search= statistic* AND agricultur*
Journal Search= proceedings IEEE computer society
Journal Search= (yearbook OR “year book” ) AND music*