Quick Facts

• Contains a list of all of the magazines and journals available electronically through a database to which UAA subscribes or to which the UAA Consortium Library subscribes in print
• Lists the dates for which articles are available

There are two ways to access the list of journals that are readily available to UAA students. Both access the same service.

Method 1

The Journals A-Z search box located on the library's home page allows you to enter the name of a magazine or journal to see which databases contain copies of articles that can be read from your computer. The dates for which articles are available is followed by the name of the database from which they are available. Clicking on the name of the database will take you to it.

Try typing American Journal of Nursing into the Journals A-Z box above. A new window will open in which you will see a list of journal titles. You can see the American Journal of Nursing on that list, but the results list for some titles can be much longer. To narrow it down, change the "Title begins with" box by clicking on the down arrow and selecting "Title equals".

If you are not getting the journal you are looking for, try changing the option to "Title contains all words".

Some journals have titles that, at first glance, do not appear to match what you are searching for. Listed below those titles will be an alternate title. Journals may be known by other popular names or may have changed their names over the course of their publication run. The alternate titles provide a record of that. For example, searching for "AJN" wil pull up American Journal of Nursing because it is an alternate title for that publication.

Method 2 - The Citation Matcher

Technically, this is a little different than Journals A-Z because the "Citation Matcher" is embedded within the databases to which UAA subscribes. If you are searching in a database and see an article for which the text is not available, look for a "Check library for full text" link. If you are looking at a list of articles, you may need to click on the title of the article so that you see a screen that contains information only about that article. Clicking on the "Check library for full text" link will take you to screens similar to those described in method 1.

• "View this article" shows direct subscriptions to the electronic version of print sources
• "Full Text Journal Online" shows which databases have the journal in full text and the dates for which full text articles are available. Note that the dates of coverage can vary significantly across databases. Clicking on the name of the database will either take you directly to the article or to a list of years that are available.
   
  When faced with a list of years, you will need to click on the year your article was published for a list of volume and issue numbers. Clicking on the appropriate issue number gives a list of the articles that were published in that issue. All of the information you need to do this is provided on the Citation Matcher screen:
   
  
   
  If you don't immediately see the article you are looking for, type its title in the second search box leaving the strange looking search in the first search box alone:
   
  
  
• "Print Journals in Your Library" will tell you if the UAA Consortium Library should have a print copy.
• "If all else fails" gives you the option to order the article via interlibrary loan.

Where to look

If the top left corner of the screen says:

• Ebsco host - The link appears at the bottom of the record for each article on both the list of articles and the article summary screens.
• Alaska Library Network - From the article summary screen only:
  
• ProQuest - Click on the "Find a copy" link from the list of articles, or from the article summary screen look on the right side for:
  
• Wolters Kluwer - The link is on the right side of the list of both the list of articles and article summary screens.