1. SEARCHING JOURNALS prepared by Literature Searching Team Library, Faculty of Medicine, UGM  2012

2. 2 What is a journal? What is an article? Electronic articles Journal collection in the library Search tools of journals Stages in searching printed journals Stages in searching electronic articles OUTLINE

3. 3 A journal is a periodical, devoted to a specific field of study, in which the articles are written by researchers and other experts. As a periodical (published periodically), a journal may be published weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, or half yearly. A journal, either in printed or in electronic format, has a unique identifier called International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) (http://libraries.uky.edu/page.php?lweb_id=135#subj) WHAT IS A JOURNAL?

4. 4 A self-contained nonfiction prose composition on a fairly narrow topic or subject, written by one or more authors and published under a separate title in a collection or periodical containing other works of the same form. The length of a periodical article is often a clue to the type of publication--magazine articles are generally less than five pages long; scholarly journal articles, longer than five pages. Also, journal articles often include a brief abstract of the content. Periodical articles are indexed, usually by author and subject, in periodical indexes and abstracting services, known as bibliographic databases when available electronically. Compare with column, editorial, and essay. (http://lu.com/ODLIS/search.cfm) WHAT IS ARTICLE?

5. 5 Electronic articles are articles in scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. They are a specialized form of electronic document, with a specialized content, purpose, format, metadata, and availability– they consist of individual articles from scholarly journals or magazines (and now sometimes popular magazines), They have the purpose of providing material for academic research and study, They are formatted approximately like printed journal articles, the metadata is entered into specialized databases, such as DOAJ or OACI as well as the databases for the discipline, and they are predominantly available through academic libraries and special libraries, generally at a fixed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_article) ELECTRONIC ARTICLES

6. 6 JAMA (weekly) British Medical Journal (weekly) The Lancet Oncology (monthly) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (monthly) Berkala Ilmu Kedokteran (quarterly) Medical Journal of Indonesia (quarterly) EXAMPLES OF MEDICAL JOURNALS

7. 7 The Library, Faculty of Medicine UGM holds a collection of journals, both in printed and in electronic format. To help library users retrieve journal articles, the library provides a search tool for searching journal articles called INDEX of journal articles. JOURNAL COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY

8. 8 Click here HOW TO SEARCH PRINTED JOURNAL

9. 9 SEARCH TERM AND SELECT OPTION Search term “tuberculosis” AND “children” used in a keyword search

10. 10 Click here for details THE SEARCH RESULT

11. 11 Journal source Author HOW TO SEARCH PRINTED JOURNAL Click the title to view details Title

12. 12 Sains Kesehatan:19(2)2006;209-219 pages year volume number DETAILS OF SOURCE OF JOURNAL ARTICLE Journal title

13. 13 Journals are shelved in alphabetical order Sains Kesehatan is shelved in row S Look at the label of the spine of bound journal, Sains Kesehatan, Volume 19 number 1-4 year Open the pages of the retrieved article HOW TO LOCATE JOURNALS ON THE SHELVES

14. 14 Click HOW TO SEARCH ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

15. 15 Search term ’tuberculosis’ TYPE IN THE SEARCH TERM

16. 16 Search result SEARCH RESULT

17. 17 Click to view details VIEWING THE DETAIL

18. 18 Click to display full textType in your library card numberType in access code DETAILS OF RECORD OF ELECTRONIC ARTICLE

19. 19 PROCEDURE TO DISPLAY FULL TEXT Click OK to view full text

20. 20 Click this icon to print Click this icon to save THE FULL TEXT VERSION

21. 21 Printed journal collection is available for library use only. Electronic journal articles are available within computer network. NOTE :

22. 22 This Power Point Presentation is compiled by Team of Literature Searching Library Faculty of Medicine, UGM.