Using the eJournal Locator to Find the Article You Need
The quickest way to start this process is from the Library Homepage, which can be found at http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/index.php
Choose the eJournal box.
Search for the name of the JOURNAL you are looking for and NOT the title of the article.
Results of eJournal search:
BSC is an example of an EbscoHost (our most common platform) database. All their eJournal link pages look something like this:
Tracking an Article From a Complete Citation:
If I had a complete citation like:
A global phylogeny of apple snails: Gondwanan origin, generic relationships, and the influence of outgroup choice (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae). By: HAYES, KENNETH A.; COWIE, ROBERT H.; THIENGO, SILVANA C.. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Sep2009, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p61-76, 16p.
and the eJournal Locator told me that periodical was in Academic Search Complete (ASC), another Ebsco database, I might follow the steps as above, but when I got to the database, I might want to add a couple of terms to my limiting search. I often take an unusual word from the title and the most unusual author name and add that to the journal search. So, in this case, the box presents as JN "Biological Journal of the Linnean Society" and then I add and gondwanan and thiengo. Adding such unusual word concepts to my search, eliminates all but the article I want, once again:
A Word about Harvard Business Review (HBR)
The periodical that students from the B School are most likely to need to track for class readings is the Harvard Business Review. I did a blog entry specifically on finding articles in HBR. It describes a very similar process to the above. If it would be helpful to review this quite specific advice, please take a look at this Sawyer Library Blog page.
Non-Ebscohost Databases
Other databases have slightly different journal search pages. But simply look for a box on the landing page that offers to search within this journal and then add the additional word concepts in the same way we did in the above instances. For example, the same scientific article as above is also in Wiley Online Library. The search screen linked from the eJournal Locator would look like this in that database:
This is an easy process, once you get the hang of it!
But there are times when we own a journal, but only in physical formats like a paper journal or microfilm, or when the article is online but from the publisher only, and not from a database. So, if you do NOT find the journal you are looking for in the eJournal Locator, or if you want to see all your possible access options, search for the journal in the Online Catalog, or OPAC, as explained on the next (above tabbed) page.
