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Serials Solutions searches the BC library's online databases for full-text journal articles.
So if you locate an article and it's not full-text
You can search EBSCO, Gale, and any of these other databases to search for your article.
To look for the journal article in other databases you will need the citation information.
Here's a citation from Gale's Expanded Academic ASAP
It's not available in the database full-text, but it is available in the library's print collection.
Here is the title of the article "The Jeckyll and Hyde of the Atomic Age"
And the important information we're going to need for our search is right underneath
We need the name of the journal--Journal of Popular Culture
The volume and issue numbers, vol. 43, issue 2
And the date, April 2010
And page 249
We will need to remember this information, because we'll need it to search Serials Solutions.
So, I'm going to go back to the library homepage and click on Serials Solutions.
It will take us to the search screen, which has a box where we will enter the journal title.
We can type in Journal of Popular Culture. We don't need to capitalize.
Now, it's going to search all these databases to see if the article can be located in full-text.
Here we have a match. It located Journal of Popular Culture, and gives us two places to look.
Bakersfield College print holdings which Gale already told us we have full-text.
And Academic Search Premier and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences in EBSCOhost.
If I click on Bakersfield College's Print Holdings
It will take me in to the library catalog, and show me our holdings in the library.
We have the journal from winter 1998 to summer of 2010 in the library's print collection...
...and we also have it in microfiche for 1986 through 1998.
Now if I go back, I also have another option.
If I'm at home this would be really handy, because it tells me that it is in Academic Serach Premier.
If I click on that link, it will take me into EBSCOhost's publication search
This gives the title, Journal of Popular Culture, that it's peer reviewed and other information.
Over on the right-hand side, it lists all the issues that are available full-text.
I'm going to click on 2010, because that is the year that I needed.
I need the April 2010 issue, volume 43, issue 2 for my article; clicking here will take me to this issue.
Now, it brings up all the articles for that issue. All are full-text, if you look under the citations.
There's a link for PDF full-text and the articles are arranged in page number order.
The first page of this journal is 227, the next article is on page 229.
I need 249, so I'm going to scroll down and if I click here..
Here's my article--"Jeckyll and Hyde of the Atomic Age" and I can click on the full-text link...
...and it will bring up that journal article for me. It's going to take a while to load.
Now, the article has come up, and I have the option of printing, or I can e-mail it to myself.
If you use Serials Solutions and you don't get any results. You still have options!
You can ask a librarian for help. The librarian may be able to locate your article at CSUB
Or maybe at some other source on the Internet, so please do ask.
Thanks for listening!