Research Guides: Find Articles: Journal Search Tools

Find Journals & Newspapers by Title

Use the Publication Finder to connect with eJournals and other online resources
Enter the journal title (not the article title). Add the year if known.
Use the menu to find full text, or if not available online, request the article through Interlibrary Loan.

Often Discover will find an article and provide the Full Text @ Smith results. Try combining title keywords AND author in your search.

From a specific article display use the Full Text Results, or if not available online, request the article through Interlibrary Loan

Journal Indexing

Find out which databases index specific journals.

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (Current coverage) This link opens in a new window
Lists U.S. and foreign periodicals including contact information for publisher, pricing, frequency, etc.

Journal Title Abbreviations

The Journal Locator searches many standard journal title abbreviations, and some discipline-specific databases list titles with abbreviations. Use this tool to find obscure titles across all disciplines.

JAbbr: Decipher your Journal Abbreviations
JAbbr is an online tool developed at Cornell University to help users decipher journal title abbreviations.
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Given an abbreviation, JAbbr creates a regular expression for fuzzy matching, tests it against a list of serial titles extracted from the library catalog, and returns a list of possible matches to the user.