Library

If you have a reference for an article, e.g.

K. J. Donnelly, Tracking British Television: Pop Music as Stock Soundtrack to the Small Screen. Popular Music Vol. 21, No. 3 (Oct., 2002), pp. 331-343

Option 1:

• Type the title of the article into the search box on the Library homepage (you can also include author and journal title if you need to)
• Once you find a link to the article you want to read, choose the link to ‘Full text online’ (you may be asked to enter your username and password)
• With some journals, you are now taken straight to the full text for the article
• For other journals, you may be presented with a screen offering you options for one or more different providers of the journal, choose the link to a journal provider based on the date of the article you need.

• Once on the journal web page, if you are not taken straight to the article itself, look for the links to lists of volumes/back issues/archive and navigate to the year/volume/issue you need
• Find the link to the article you need, and open the file (usually PDF)
• If you can’t find the article you need, try option 2

Option 2:

• Search for the overall journal title (e.g. Popular Music) using the search box on the Library homepage
  
• In the list of results find the e-journal entry for the journal (you can limit to e-journals on the left-hand side of the screen under ‘Format’)
• Choose the 'Full Text Online' link
• Choose the date range that you need. There may be more than one link to different providers offering different date ranges.
• Once on the journal provider web page look for the links to lists of volumes/back issues/archive and navigate to the year/volume/issue you need
• Find the link to the article you need, and open the file (usually PDF)

To be certain that the Library provides access to the journal online, we always recommend searching for the overall journal title and checking the dates available. If you still can't find the article, see further information below.

If you want to find articles about a topic but don't have any specific references.

Option 1:

• Use keywords to search for your topic using the search box on the Library homepage
• Once you find a link to the article you want to read, choose the link to ‘Full text online’ (you may be asked to enter your username and password)
• With some journals, you are now taken straight to the full text for the article
• For other journals, you may be presented with a screen offering you options for one or more different providers of the journal. Choose the link to a journal provider based on the date of the article you need. The article reference is shown on this intermediary page – it may be useful to copy and paste this information so you can refer back to it if you need to

• Once on the journal web page, if you are not taken straight to the article itself, look for the links to lists of volumes/back issues/archive and navigate to the year/volume/issue you need
• Find the link to the article you need, and open the file (usually PDF)
• If you can’t find any articles for your topic, you may need to use a specific database

Option 2:

Using the search on the Library homepage is a good starting point for finding full text articles but it doesn't find every article. For a more comprehensive search, you may need to search individual subject databases.

• Find the database you need! The Library provides listings of databases by subject. For further advice about choosing and using databases, please contact your College Librarian
• For most databases, you will need to enter your username and password
• When you find an article you want to read in your chosen database, you will often be able to open the full text directly from the database
• Where this is not the case, you will see a button showing 'Full text' (with the University crest); this works as described for Article Search above

If there is no direct link to full text take a note of the journal title and return to Search on the Library homepage to check if we subscribe to the journal.