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Finding Journals and Journal Articles

Library Search: Advanced search

The Advanced search in Library Search allows you to build up a more sophisticated search by adding more search lines than are available in the Simple Search. You can also select filters prior to carrying out your search.

NOTE:  All results will be available in full text. You can see additional results by selecting the button add info here Remember that you can use the Inter Library Loan service to request any items the library does not hold in its collection.

This is the Advanced Search box:

Filters include:

Resource categories (top bar: Search for) Material Type (drop down list) Language (drop down list) Date Range

Everything

Journals Multiple languages available Start date
Books Books   End Date
Articles and Chapters Articles    
UDORA Images    
  Sound recordings    
  Video/Film    
  Dissertations    

To construct your search you select:

  • Field. This is a drop-down list that allows you to narrow the search to all search fields or a particular field (such as title and subject)
  • The search type, from a drop down menu
    • is (exact) – Returns results that contain phrases that exactly match the phrases specified in the query.
    • contains – Returns results that contain all words in the phrase, but the words may be in a different order and may not be as close together.

    • starts with – Returns results that contain words that start with the specified string. When performing a Title search, it is recommended that you do not omit any leading articles from the title. For example, The Oxford Handbook is preferred to Oxford Handbook.

  • Use of operators AND, OR, NOT (See the page on improving your search, to the left, to find out more about using additional search techniques such as operators, truncation and wildcards.)

You can add extra lines to your search query if needed (up to a maximum of 7 lines)

The page on using the simple search includes more information about viewing your results once you have carried out a search, using the filters and using the information you find on the detailed page for an individual result.

Library Search search results for journal articles may include links that enable you to develop your search with very little effort. 

Citation trails is an exploration tool that helps users find related articles to the ones they have already identified as useful to their research.  They allow you to explore the topic of the 'seed' article further. 

You will often see small icons in the records on the results page and at the very bottom of the detailed page that look like this:

1)   Citing This: 

This directs you to other results that CITE this paper. In other words, other authors have used this article as part of their references.

 

2) Cited In:    

This directs you to the articles CITED by this paper. In other words, the reference list created by this article's author(s).

 

Not every record will include these features in Library Search; you may be able to find more information from the article's publisher site.

 

1) Citing this:

When you click on the Citing This icon you will see this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) When you click on the Cited in icon you will see this: