Journals are regular publications containing articles about research in a particular field. The articles have been reviewed by experts in that field to ensure that they are of high quality. Such journals are referred to as:

• peer-reviewed journals
• refereed journals
• research journals
• scholarly journals

Linked list of all literature journals in the Library, print and electronic.

Here are some convenient ways of keeping up-to-date with journal articles being published on your subject:-

LION (LiteratureOnline) enables you to set up automatic search alerts. Save your search on the database and when new records matching your search are added they will be emailed to you.

For key journals, go to the publisher's web site and see whether there is an option set up a table-of-contents alert. If so, each time a new issue is published the table of contents will be emailed to you.

If you know the details of the article: first try searching for it in Multisearch using the Advanced search option and selecting Journal title/source as the search field. There may be several different electronic /and/or print options for reading it.

These databases cover many other subjects as well as literature and are useful for cross-disciplinary topics.