Finding Print Articles
Journal titles in citations are often abbreviated. The Chemistry Library has the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI) on reserve if you need help deciphering a title in a citation, or you may check an online list of Journal Abbreviations provided by UBC and linked off the Chemistry Library homepage under the "Journals" listing.
To see if the Chemistry Library carries the journal, check the Online Catalog. A link to the catalog appears on the blue menu bar at the top of the Chemistry Library home page.
After following the link, choose "UIUC Online Library
Catalog."
The next page will have options for searching the catalog. To begin
searching, click on the "Quick Search" link.
Using the quick search, enter the title of your journal. If you know the journal title, volume number, issue number, and page number(s), you can find your article
In this
example, we're looking for an article in the 1942 issue of Journal of Chemical Education. Leave out "A," "An,"
or "The" as the first word. Be sure to spell out the journal title; don't use
the abbreviations you might find in a citation. For a more precise search, limit your search to magazines/journals and
search by the start of the title.
Click on the title of an entry to see the full record page for the title
you want. (Although this title is available online, you'd find out that it isn't available as far back as 1942.)
The full record page will tell you where you can find the volume you need.
At the bottom of the full record page, you'll find the list of holdings that have the 1942 volume.
In this case, the volume you want (vol. 19) is shelved at the main stacks, Oak Street, and Undergrad. You can go to the main library or the undergrad library to find them. If the only available copy is at the Oak Street Facility, you can retrieve it by using the request function at the top of the page (in the online catalog) which will take you to the request form.
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