In this short video, I am going to show you how to access and use the library's electronic journals catalogue. Once you have located the library's home page at ulster.ac.uk/library ,scroll down to the Quick Links menu and you will find a link to Electronic Journals.
Click on this to go to the Publication Finder which is the catalogue for the electronic journals. It allows you to find electronic journals where you can browse all volumes and issues of a journal where the library holds content. You can then browse issues of a journal or search within a journal for further content.
If you're presented with an Open Athens authentication screen at this point, simply type in Ulster and click on the Ulster University link that appears, and you should gain seamless access to the resources.
In the Journal catalogue, you will see a search box where you can type in the journal title. There are also a couple of options to the left which you might want to explore but today I’m just going to type the journal The Black Scholar and you’ll see, as I type, there are some auto suggestions which you might want to click on or you can carry on typing in the search box and then hit enter.
Further down the page is the results list and at the top is The Black Scholar and underneath it you will see there are three blue links. What you need to have a look at is the grey writing under the blue links which show you the coverage of these particular sources. So, there are three options here. The first one starts 1969 until present day with a full text delay of six years. So that means you can access all copies of this journal from the start of its publication until just a few years ago. The next link, Literature Online, has access from 1994 to 2006.
And then for the most recent copies of this journal, the, the bottom link, Taylor and Francis takes us up to the present day from 1997.
So you can see you can choose by the particular source which years you're going to look at.
I'm going to select this one, and it gives me a list of issues and on the right hand side there's a plus button so I can expand the view, see the different issues under this volume, and then pick the issue. Just click on the hyperlink, the blue link here and that gives me the contents of volume 55, 2023. Then full text or PDF. So I'm just going to click on the PDF and that will give me the version as it looks in print.
If at this stage, you're confronted by a screen which asks you to pay but has an institutional login link at the top, click on the institutional login and it may ask you to type Ulster but follow that route and it will allow you to proceed to this page.
If I go back to the Journal list where I was browsing all the issues, I can go up to that search screen at the top and search by keywords, authors, or DOI and find articles within this particular journal title.
If you need any further help in accessing or using the electronic journals catalogue get in touch. Either contact library help or contact your subject librarian.