Using Electronic Journals

Most of the Library's journal publications are now in electronic formats as well as print, or are published exclusively as electronic titles. You need to be able to find and use electronic journals.

We will try to find the article

Paddon-Jones, D. 2006 Interplay of Stress and Physical Inactivity on Muscle Loss: Nutritional Countermeasures. Journal of nutrition 136(8) 2123-2126.

The Catalogue search for the journal title Journal of nutrition finds 2 records for this title.
This time look at the second title. This leads to electronic versions of the journal.
Click on the journal title or on [2] in the # column.

Click on the first of the Link to e-Resource options.

You may be challenged to provide your student number and password.

The web site of the journal will appear.
Click on the link Select an Issue from the Archive:

Click on the year 2006.

Select the month you want.

Scroll through the issue until you find the page numbers and title for the article you want.
The PDF version is usually the best format for printing.

You could also click on the link Search for Articles
Enter the details for year, volume and first page
Click on the Search button

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