Library Tutorial for Public Health
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 American Family Physician. 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
American family physician.
Title: American family physician.
Standard Title: American family physician (Kansas City, Mo. : 1970)
Published: [Kansas City, Mo.] : American Academy of Family Physicians, c1970-
Description: v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Abbreviated Title: Am. fam. phys. (1970)
Other Author(s): American Academy of Family Physicians.
Subject Heading(s): Family medicine Periodicals.
Medicine Periodicals.
Note(s): Title from cover.
ISSN: 0002-838X
Earlier title: American family physician/GP
Location: Barr Smith Main Collection
Call Number: 610.5 A498 Copy 1
Notes: Recent issues shelved in Current journals
Bound volumes from v. 23 in Main Collection
Vol. 2 (1970)-v. 22 (1980) in Joint Store PP20890-20928
Library Has: v. 2, no. 6 - v. 12, no. 5 (1970:Dec. - 1975:Nov.)
v. 13, no. 1 - v. 18, no. 6 (1976:Jan. - 1978:Dec.)
v. 20, no. 1 - v. 73, no. 6 (1979:July:01 - 2006:Mar.:15)
Missing:v. 17, no. 1-6. v. 18, no. 1-6. v. 42, no. 4
Recent Issues: v. 74, no. 11 (2006 Dec. 1)
v. 74, no. 10 (2006 Nov. 15)
v. 74, no. 9 (2006 Nov. 1)
v. 74, no. 8 (2006 Oct. 15)
v. 74, no. 7 (2006 Oct. 1)
v. 74, no. 6 (2006 Sept. 15)
v. 74, no. 5 (2006 Sept. 1)
v. 74, no. 4 (2006 Aug. 15)
v. 74, no. 3 (2006 Aug. 1)
v. 74, no. 2 (2006 July 15)
v. 74, no. 1 (2006 July 1)
v. 73, no. 12 (2006 June 15)
v. 73, no. 11 (2006 June 1)
v. 73, no. 10 (2006 May 15)
v. 73, no. 9 (2006 May 1)
v. 73, no. 8 (2006 Apr. 15)
v. 73, no. 7 (2006 Apr. 1)
Status: Not on loan
Location: Joint Store (URRSA)
Call Number: PP20890-20928
Library Has: Vol. 2 (1970)-v. 22 (1980)
Status: Not on loan
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Questions - hard copy (print) journals
1. What is the year and volume number of the earliest volume of American Family Physician held by the Library?
2. What is the call number for the journal?
3. Name the three locations in which the volumes of the journal are shelved.
4. What is the volume number and date of the earliest volume stored in the Barr Smith Main collection?
5. Where would you look for the volume you need for the reference below
Hayes S. N. (2006) Preventing cardiovascular disease in women.
American Family Physician. 74(8):1331-40.
6. Why would you have a problem if you wanted volume 18, number 2?
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To find this information you need to check the sections labelled
Location,
Call Number
Notes
Library Has
Recent Issues
Missing
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?
Realini J. P. (2004) Teenage pregnancy prevention: what can we do? American Family Physician. 70(8):1457-8.
2. What is the date of the earliest volume of the journal available electronically?
3. Why would you have difficulty finding the reference below?
Ross C. C. (1988) Screening for colorectal cancer. American Family Physician. 38(6):105-14.
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Answers - hard copy (print) journals.
1. The Library holds volume 2, which was published in 1970. It's kept at the Joint Store (URRSA) along with other volumes up to and including volume 22, which was published in 1980.
2. The call number for volumes in the Barr Smith Main Collection, and also in the Current journals area on level 3 is 610.5 A498
3. Volumes 2 to 22 are kept at the Joint Store (URRSA), volumes from 23 on are shelved in the Barr Smith Main collection, and the very recent unbound volumes (where every issue is listed separately) are kept in Current journals on level 3.
4. The earliest volume stored in the Barr Smith Library is volume 23.
5. You would need to look in the Current journals area on level 3 - If you look at the record you'll see volume 74, number 8, 2006 listed in the Recent Issues.
6. You would not be able to find volume 18, number 2, as it is missing - it's listed in the Missing Issues section.
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Answers - electronic journals
1. This article would be available from all four sources - Academic OneFile, Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Freely Accessible Science Journals, and MD Consult Core Journals
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!) |
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