How to find an article when you have the bibliographic reference

1) If you have the details of the article you would like to find, you can search for it directly using the journal title.

For example, you can use the UOC Library:'s catalogue (for print journals) or e-journal search engine (for online publications) to find the journal, determine whether the issue you need is available and, if so, access the full text. If the journal or issue is not available, you can use the Library's document supply service.

The Library's e-journal search engine allows the students, faculty and researchers at the UOC to browse and view, first hand and quite easily, the Library's entire collection of subscription and open-access e-journals.

This tool offers direct full-text access to each journal's content or, when a journal is not available, instructions on other ways to access it, such as through the Library's document supply service. It moreover offers a series of advanced value-added services, such as the ability to view abstracts and journal impact factors or to export bibliographic references using the reference manager RefWorks.

E-journal search engine tutorial: http://biblioteca.uoc.edu/cat/cdigital/Manual_SFX.pdf

If you have the full bibliographic reference for an article (author and title of the article; name, ISSN, issue, number and year of the journal), you can use the Library's article finder, completing as many fields as possible:

a) Full name of the journal (otherwise, use an asterisk to indicate that the name may be longer).
b) Journal ISSN (if you do not have this information, indicate the journal's name as precisely as possible).
c) Volume, number and first and last pages.

Another way to find articles is by using the Consortium of Catalan University Libraries' (CBUC) e-TOC database, which allows you to search the tables of contents of more than 13,000 journals. It also includes online forms to request inter-library loans automatically.

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