Here's a citation for an article...how do you find the whole article?
Gaultney, J. F. (2010). The Prevalence of Sleep Disorders in College Students: Impact on Academic Performance. Journal of American College Health, 59(2), 91-97.
This citation is for an article published in 2010 in the Journal of American College Health, a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. There are several ways of determining if the article you're looking for is available at Berkeley:
Option 1: Look up the journal title in OskiCat or Melvyl.
You can also search for the title of the journal (NOT the article title!) in either OskiCat or Melvyl. They will tell you:
if we subscribe to the journal you're looking for
which years we have
whether our subscription is print ("hard-copy") or online
what the call number is (for print journals)
where to find the journal online (for online journals)
what's the latest print issue we've received (OskiCat only)
Option 2: Use an article database to locate a citation for the article, and use UC-eLinks to retrieve the full text.
You can use an article database provided by the UC Berkeley Libraries (like Academic Search Complete, PubMed, PsycINFO, etc.) to search for your article by author and article title. Academic Search Complete is a multidiscplinary database that indexes articles on many topics (and also includes the full text of some articles), so it's often a good place to start. See a brief demo, or read more about UC-eLinks.
Option 3: Use Google Scholar to locate a citation for the article, and UC-eLinks to retrieve the full text.
Paste or type the citation into Google and pull down the Google Scholar tool. Here's how:
Note: Google Scholar does not cover all publishers, and many journals indexed by Google Scholar have partial coverage only (some years/volumes missing). Also, not all articles found through Google Scholar will be available online. If you can't find the full text of your article this way, read on for more options!
Option 3: Go to the journal's website and browse its archives to find your article.
Use the Libary's database of electronic journal titles to find the website for your journal -- be sure to search for the title of the journal, NOT the article title. Remember that not all journals are available online, and some journals have not put their complete archives online.
If you can't find the journal you're looking for in our list of electronic journals, then search OskiCat or Melvyl to find out if we have the journal in print format.
Still having problems finding your article? Ask a librarian!
Citation Linker
Have a citation? Go directly to the article! Use Citation Linker.
Get immediate access to journal articles, books and other publications (or request them when they are not available) by entering a title and other citation information.
When a publication is available online: The UC-eLinks window will provide a link to the publisher's web site that should contain the full text of the publication if UC (systemwide or your home campus) subscribes to the electronic version of the publication.
When a publication is not available online: The UC-eLinks window will offer other options such as the ability to check campus library holdings in the Melvyl Catalog (and where you can sometimes find that items ARE available online), or to Request the item via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) if UC (systemwide or your home campus) does not subscribe to the electronic version of the publication.
Journal Tips
Use E-Journal titles A-Z for the widest coverage of electronic journals. Most are licensed and some are open access, that is, freely available.
When checking OskiCat or Melvyl to see if Berkeley subscribes to a journal, use the journal's title in the search and not the author or title of the article you want. Oski does not list individual articles, and Melvyl has only a few.
When the Oski record indicates that the library has e-access through several sources, that information lets you know that the title is important.
Older issues of paper journals are stored in NRLF; use Request in Oski to ask that journals be brought back to campus for you to use or to have NRLF staff scan the article you need and email it to you.
To find articles about your subject, use indexes. The key index for literature is the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB).
JSTOR is a large database of over a 1000 scholarly journals, but publishers are allowed to embargo new issues from a time period of 1-10 years, so the newest issues may not be available.
Project Muse offers newer issues of articles published in nearly 400 not-for-profit and scholarly journals. Some journals offer all issues published while others offer only the newer ones.
