Finding Journals

What Do We Own? Search Journal Finder

In the Science Library we subscribe to 165 titles in print format but many thousands more in electronic format only (full text online).

Journal Finder gives quick access to online journals.

Tip: Some OBIS catalog records for our print subscriptions also include a link to the online version - always check OBIS for a link to online access, if Journal Finder points you there.

Where Are Print Journals Shelved?

This week's journals: arranged by date of receipt on a display rack adjacent to the library entrance. They remain there for 7 days, then move to the north reading area shelves.

This year's journals: unbound issues are in the north reading area, arranged by title within broad disciplinary categories: chemistry, physics, biology, neuroscience, and geology. A small interdisciplinary section (including Science, Nature, New Scientist, American Scientist, etc.) precedes the chemistry periodicals section.

Bound journals from 2006 and forward: during Summer 2011 all bound volumes, including these more recent years now shelved separtely in the open stacks near the north reading area, are being integrated into one alphabetic sequence, by title, in the movable compact shelving on the east side of the library.

Older bound journals: arranged by title in the movable, compact shelving on the east side of the library. Thousands of journals are being withdrawn during Summer 2011, to be recycled. These volumes are also accessible in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, JSTOR or other stable digital archive.

Most journals published before 1960 are in the closed stacks of Carnegie storage. Request those volumes at the library's circulation desk.

Do Journals Leave the Library?

Yes, for one day at a time to college affiliated users only. Journals may be renewed online from your own patron record.

Fines for overdue journals are $1.00 per day.