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Locating Periodicals

Some Tisch Library databases do not provide full-text access to articles from periodicals (magazines, newspapers, or scholarly journals). When you have a citation and you want to find a copy of an article, here are your options::

Option 1: Search the Library Catalog

Choose "Journal Title" as your type of search. Search for the name of the journal, newspaper, or magazine (Psychology Today, The New York Times, Journal of the American Medical Association) omitting beginning articles (the, an and a and their foreign equivalents). If this results in a screen with a numbered list of titles, click on the item that most closely matches the title you input.

The location(s) and information about which volumes the library owns appear at the bottom of the screen. Locations for periodicals include:

• ELECTRONIC ACCESS
  Indicates that the library has a subscription to an online version of the periodical.
  Click on the link to download, e-mail, or print your article.
• TISCH BOUND PERIODICALS
  Indicates back issues of periodicals that are in bound volumes.
  Location: Shelved by call number on the lower and entrance levels of Tisch Library.
• TISCH CURRENT PERIODICALS
  Indicates the most current issues of periodicals (roughly those for the current year).
  Location: Shelved alphabetically by title in the current periodicals area (entrance level) of Tisch Library.
  Current issues of some chemistry, geology, biology and physics journals are held in reading rooms in the appropriate departments.
• TISCH MICROFORMS
  Indicates back issues of newspapers and a small number of periodicals.
  Location: On microfilm/microfiche in the Microforms Area (entrance level) of Tisch Library.
• READING ROOMS
  Some recent issues of current periodicals may be located at departmental reading rooms.
• HHSL JOURNAL STACKS, VET JOURNAL STACKS, GINN PERIODICAL STACKS, MUSIC, etc.
  Indicates that the periodical is held at another Tufts library.

Option 2: Search Electronic Journals

Search for electronic journals by typing the title of the periodical you are looking for.

Option 3: Try an Online Repository

New Jour is a list of journals and newsletters available on the Internet.
YAHOO! maintains a list of full-text journals, magazines and newspapers

Option 4: Request a Copy of your Article

If you've searched for your periodical in both the catalog and the Electronic Journals list and can't locate it, Tisch Library probably does not subscribeto it. Request a copy of your article through Document Delivery and you will recieve a copy of it in a few days.