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Welcome to the Capella University Library's tutorial "Journal and Book Locator: Finding Full Text."
Journal and Book Locator is the best place to go if you have a complete citation and you want to see whether the library has the full text of the article you need.
Where do you find citations? You may find citations in an online search, your textbook's reference list or the optional readings from your syllabus, for instance.
Most scholarly citations you run into will be from journal articles. However, there are many different kinds of citations. Before you begin, it helps to look for clues in the citation to tell what kind of document you are looking for. You can tell that a citation is a journal article if it includes a journal title, often in italics, and a volume or issue number. In this tutorial, we will mainly focus on journal articles.
You can tell that a citation is for a book if it includes the publisher and place of publication. We will address finding books later in this session.
What if you don't have a complete citation - just an article or author name instead? We will show you how to solve this kind of dilemma later in this presentation, as well.
In a physical collection, finding a specific article based on a citation can be very straightforward. You start by driving to the library.
You walk around until you locate the journal and magazine aisles. You look for the section with the title of the journal you need, and then check to see whether they have the right years and issues.
We will use a similar process to get an article in the Capella Library. Your citation acts as a miniature map to tell you where to go.
Just like in a print collection, the first step for locating the article will be finding the Journal title.
The journal article should be listed in italics. A journal title is not the same as the article title. The title of the journal that contains the article can be found before the volume, issue and page numbers, toward the end of the citation.
You try! Find and click the journal title in following three citations. Note that not all of these examples will be in APA format.
Now, we are ready to begin.
Watch as we use Journal and Book Locator to see whether Capella Library has this journal title.
Just like in a print collection, the most important part… of this citation for… locating the article will be the Journal title.
You try! Click the journal title in following three citations.
Watch as we use Journal and Book Locator to see whether Capella Library has this journal title.
Refer back to the citation as needed.