UW-Madison Libraries Collection

Electronic Journal List

• Provides access via Find It to more than 26,000 e-journals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers
• Search for e-journals by title words or browse A-Z lists
• Browse e-journals by subject
  
• Browse e-journals by publisher/provider in "More Options" - e.g. American Chemical Society
  
• Journal title link opens a Find it window which contains online holdings information and link to a MadCat search

Find It

Use Find It to determine if an article is available online, in print on campus, or not available on campus.

For example, a search for the journal title that begins with "tetrahedron" retrieves 7 records.

Click on the red Find It button to the left on an entry to obtain online holding and a link to MadCat.

MadCat

Use Find It for most journal searches. Use MadCat for combined search features such as truncation ("?") and phrases ("as a phrase").

Full-text Links in Databases

More and more journal databases are adding links to full-text journal articles. Links work with varying degreees of success! If the database has been Find It - enabled, you will see or a similar phrase. If the database provides another type of link, like SciFinder's full text link to Chem Port, try it. You should be able to access all electronic journals to which UW-Madison Libraries subscribes. In all cases, it is important to remember that when you access a full-text article within a journal database, you are still "occupying a seat" in that database. If the database is limited to a specific number of simultaneous users (e.g. SciFinder Scholar ), you may be blocking someone from accessing the database. Please keep this in mind and resist the urge to browse.

On-Campus Article Delivery

On-campus Document Delivery — Log in to Library Express to request electronic copies of articles owned on campus for a $2.00 service fee.

Articles Not Owned by UW-Madison

To receive an electronic copy of an article or book chapter:

1. Check to see if the article is available online.
2. Request an electronic copy through Library Express.

Current Awareness Alerts and RSS Feeds

A current awareness alert profile is a saved search that runs automatically whenever the database is updated. When the profile is run, it retrieves newly-added documents on your topic or journal list and emails them to you. Chemistry Library staff will set up and maintain profiles for Chemistry Department faculty and graduate students. Contact Emily Wixson (email) for details or complete the online form.

RSS stands for "Real Simple Syndication," an XML format for sharing syndicated information on the Web. Many journal publishers offer RSS feeds as a way to alert subscribers when a journal site is updated. Use a "feed reader" t o follow an RSS feed such as Bloglines or Google Reader.

To learn more about Alerts and RSS, see http://www.library.wisc.edu/alerts/ or contact askchem@library.wisc.edu.

Journal Abbreviations

Determining full titles from abbreviations can sometimes be a challenge. The following sources may be helpful:

• MadCat: Basic Keywords Search with the field label "jkey" and the MadCat truncation symbol "?".
• The single best source of abbreviations is CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service source index). Call 262-2942 for help.
  Chemistry Library Ready Ref: LN C38 AB8
  
• Internet journal abbreviation sites:
  • CAS DDS Title Search [title keyword search] (http://www.cas.org/Support/DDS/ddssearch.html )
  • ISI Chemistry Citation Index Journal Search [title word + truncation search] ( http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlsearch.cgi?PC=CD )
  • Journal Titles and Abbreviations, University of British Columbia Library. [alphabetical listing by abbreviation; no search engine] (http://www.library.ubc.ca/scieng/coden.html )
  • All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources (listing of Web sites that list complete journal titles and abbreviations)
  • NCBI Journals Database (PubMed) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/journals)