Finding Articles from a Specific Journal

If you're looking for a specific journal article or you want to find whether the UMGC Library has full-text access to articles from a particular journal, you can do this by following the steps outlined below.

For the sake of demonstration, let's say that you're interested in finding an article published in Journal of Organizational Behavior in 2012.

To search for articles from this journal, you'll first need to find which database(s) contain full-text articles from the journal from 2012. Here's how to do that:

• From the UMGC Library home page, click on the Journal Finder tab:

  

• On the Journal Finder page, enter the journal's title into the search box, putting quotation marks around titles that consist of two or more words. Use the drop-down menu to select Title starts with, Title contains, or Exact match, depending on how much and which part of the journal's title you've entered. You may also enter a publication year, although doing so is optional. Then click on the Find It button:

  

• You'll then see a new window or tab that will show you which UMGC library database(s) provide full-text access to articles from that journal, as well as the years of full-text availability for each database.

  

• Click on the Get full text at link next to a database's name to be taken to the database.

• Once in a database, you can search for articles in the journal by entering search terms in the search boxes provided, or you can browse through different issues of the journal to drill down to a particular article. You may sometimes need to click on a Search within this publication link (or a similar link) before you'll be presented with search boxes that you can use to search for articles on a particular topic, etc. within the journal. The image shown below is representative; what you'll see will vary depending on which database you're taken to. The image below is from Business Source Complete.

  

  • To search for an article by author and title, enter an author's last name and AND it with the first few words of an article's title, which should be put between quotation marks so that the database will search for the title words as a phrase. For example, to find an article by Fisher and To entitled "Using experience sampling methodology in organizational behavior," you could search for fisher AND "using experience sampling methodology".
  • To search for articles on some particular topic, see Creating Effective Search Statements for tips on how to format your search terms for maximum effectiveness.

If you have any questions about this information, please use the UMGC Library's Ask a Librarian service to receive assistance.