Section 5. Interpreting catalogue results - journals
Once you've successfully found the item you're looking for listed in the catalogue, you need to know how to interpret the results of your search. Below is the result of a search for the Journal of Advanced Nursing. The search retrieved multiple records, so to see more detail we need to choose a single record. You can do this either by clicking on the number to the left of the screen, or by clicking on the Full Title hyperlink.
Hard copy (print) journals
If you clicked on the first record you would go to a screen which displayed the following information about our print copy of this journal.
Title: Journal of advanced nursing.
Published: Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publ.,
Description: v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Abbreviated Title: J. adv. nurs.
Subject Heading(s): Nursing Periodicals.
Note(s): Description based on: Vol. 10, no. 2 (Mar. 1985); title from cover.
ISSN: 0309-2402
Location: Barr Smith Main collection
Call Number: 610.7305 J8611 Copy 1
Library Has: v. 1, no. 1 - v. 40, no. 6 (1976:Jan. - 2002:Dec.)
Status: Not on loan |
Questions - hard copy (print)
journals
1. What is the year and volume number of the earliest volume of Journal of Advanced Nursing held by the Library?
2. What is the number of the most recent volume held by the Library? What is the number of the most recent issue of that volume held by the Library?
3. What is the call number for the journal?
4. Where is the journal kept?
5. Why would you have a problem if you wanted an article from volume 41?
ANSWERS |
To find this information you need to check the sections labelled
Location,
Call Number
Library Has
You will also need to check Status, to see if any volumes are on loan. Older volumes of most journals are kept at the Joint Store (URRSA) which is at Flinders University Campus. Check the Library's A-Z for details of the Joint Store location and how to request items from there. Bound volumes are shelved in the Barr Smith Main Collection, and the recent issues are shelved with the Current Journals on level 3 of the Barr Smith.
Electronic journals
The Library now subscribes to a wide range of electronic journals. If you clicked on the second record from your search results screen you would be taken to a new screen with links to a number of sources. Dates for which volumes of the journal are available are listed after the name of the source. Sometimes a dash after a date is used to indicate that all issues of the journal are available from that date forward.
Clicking on one of these links would result in a prompt for your username and password . After you entered these details you would be taken to the web site, where you could retrieve a copy of the article you wanted.
Questions - electronic journals
1. In which of the electronic sources listed would you expect to find the article listed below?
Hartford K. (2005) Telenursing and patients' recovery from bypass surgery. Journal of Advanced Nursing 50(5):459-68.
2. What is the date of the earliest volume of the journal available electronically?
3. Why would you have difficulty finding the reference below in electronic format?
Jones JA. (1988) Clinical reasoning in nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 13(2):185-92.
ANSWERS |
Answers - hard copy (print) journals
1. The earliest volume stored in the Barr Smith Library is volume 1, 1976.
2. The most recent volume held is volume 46. The most recent issue of that volume held is number 6, December 2002.
3. The call number for the journal is 610.7305 J8611
4. All volumes held by the Library are shelved in the Barr Smith Main Collection
5. The Library does not hold a paper copy of volume 41 - however if you check the holdings for the electronic version you'll find that we do have the volume electronically. |
Answers - electronic journals
1. This article would be available from Blackwell-Synergy. It would not be available from either Academic Search Premier or Health Source: Nursing/Academic as these two sources have an embargo on the latest year.
2. The date of the earliest volume available electronically is 1989.
3. You would not be able to find an electronic copy of this article as none of the electronic sources includes 1988. (However you would find that the Library holds a paper copy of this volume!) |
