Using journals

What is a journal?
Why use them?
How do I find good ones to use?
How do I find locate them in the Library?
What about referencing?
What is a journal?
According to the Concise OED “a newspaper or
magazine dealing with a particular subject”
Also called Serials, Periodicals.
Published daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly……
Divided into volumes, parts and issues
Different types of journals
Newspapers
Popular magazines aimed at the general reader
e.g. Vogue
Serious scholarly publications containing
accounts of research projects or theories where
articles are reviewed by other academics e.g.
Royal Society of Chemistry journals
Why use them?
Good source of up to date material – or contemporary
material
Research published more quickly in a journal than in a
book.
Good source of more specialised material
Not everything makes it into a book
How do I find out which
journals are relevant for my
subject?
Use Subject guides

Recommendations

Browsing
Finding print journals in the
Library.

Use the Library catalogue journal searches.

Finding and accessing
electronic journals

Log in to the Anglia Ruskin Digital Library.

Use the “ Find e-Journal” search

Remember copyright ……

As a general rule, you are allowed to copy ONE

article from any one issue of a journal.
References to journal
articles
Will contain Title and Author (s) of the Article
Title of the journal
The year of publication
The Volume Number, Part and/or Issue of journal
Page numbers of Article
Referencing

Guides available on the Library web site

•Harvard
•OSCOLA (Law)
•APA (Psychology)