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Finding Journals and Full-text Articles in MVLS Libraries
FIND A JOURNAL
On the California Libraries Catalog, under the “Public Libraries” button, go to the “Advanced Search” tab. There you can limit your search to the “Sacramento-No.Central Valley-Mother Lode” area and click the “Serial Publications” icon. Put the journal title in quotation marks and search it as Keyword or Title. For special and academic libraries as well as public, use the “All California Libraries” button.
For University of California Libraries and the California State Library, go to MELVYL
Example: Type as Title: new england journal of medicine (Click “Words as Phrase”) —> Select Format: Journals —>Press Search
Note: UC Davis and the California State Library are included in MELVYL, but it’s often best to go directly to:
UCD’s Harvest. Go to the “Journals & Serials” tab
California State University, Sacramento Check the Journal Locator List, a link under Resources & Collections.
The California Newspaper Project (CNP), managed by UC Riverside, offers a public access catalog of historical California newspapers throughout the state in libraries and other collections.
FIND A FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
NewsBank, a full-text newspaper database at some MVLS libraries
Free Full-text journal resources
BioMed Central publishes about 50 online e-journals indexed in PubMed
FreeMedicalJournals.com‘s list of free journals is changeable.
Directory of Open Access Journals “…covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.”
Journal Abbreviation Sources also tells where journals are indexed
Last updated November 16, 2017