This presentation provides instructions for finding a journal article in the UCT Libraries resources in 3 steps: 1. Search the electronic journal portal by journal title, author, or keywords to find if the full text is available online. 2. If not available online, search the library catalog to check if the library has print subscriptions and view holdings information. 3. Librarians are available for assistance if the article cannot be found through the online or print library resources.

1. Trying to find a journal? And not sure where to start ?

2. This presentation will show you How to find a journal in UCT Libraries

3. You want to find this article: The behavior of NaOH at the air-water Interface Collin D. Wick and Liem X. Dang Journal of Chemical Physics 133(2): 024705 (2010) Article title Authors Journal title Volume number Issue number Page number Date

4. Start by looking for the electronic version of the journal. Our e-journals are all listed in the e-Journal Portal …

5. Open the Libraries web site: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za Hover your mouse over Journals in the top menu bar Click on ElectronicJournals

6. This will open up the e-Journal Portal … journal chemical physics And click on Go Type in some keywords from the journal title

8. Open chemicalphysics journalJournal of chemical physics is available in several resources: AIP Journals AIP Scitation Journals EBSCOhost PubMed Central Click on the journal’s title SwetsWise

9. This opens a page of links to the these resources Click Go for the resource you want

10. Your journal opens … 133 024705 Navigate to the volume and page of your article

11. And you have your article … Click to download

12. But, what if the Libraries don’t subscribe to the electronic version of the journal? If you look for the journal … Systematics and biodiversity the e-Journal Portal will show this:

13. So you can’t access this journal on the web … BUT we may have a subscription to the print version ALEPH (the Libraries’ online catalogue) will tell you if we get the print version …

14. Go to the Libraries home page and click on ALEPH

15. When the catalogue opens up ... Click on Browse

16. In the Browse screen ... Open the dropdown menu that lets you choose the index you want to browse in. Select Journal Title

17. Type in the journal title Systematics and biodiversity And click GO Click on journal title

18. This opens the catalogue record for the journal ... The Shelf Mark tells you where to look on the shelves We have from volume 1, issue 1 onwards The Holdings field tells you which volumes we have

19. And remember, if you can’t find what you are looking for …the librarians are here to help you. Please just ask us! Created by Fiona Jones July, 2010