If you already have a reference to a journal article, you can either search for the article title in MultiSearch. Alternatively, you can check if the Library has the journal by doing a Journal title begins with search on the Library's catalogue. Note that the Library has journals in both print and electronic formats and there are separate catalogue records for these.
When searching for journals on a particular subject do a Subject keyword search in the catalogue. Type in periodicals, along with subject words; e.g.
language disorders periodicals
communicative disorders periodicals
people disabilities communication periodicals
Many databases enable you to set up automatic search alerts. When you create an alert, new records in the database matching your search will be emailed to you.
For key journals, go to the publisher's web site and set up a table-of-contents alert. Each time a new issue is published the table-of-contents will be emailed to you.
Please note that the Library also has print copies of books in this series, including earlier books not available electronically.
To find out what journal title abbreviations stand for use this site:-
NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases
When searching in PubMed hold the cursor over the journal title abbreviation to find the full title.
Academic journals (also called scholarly, peer-reviewed, or referred journals) are a useful source of articles written by people who are experts on the topic. Most articles go through a 'peer-review' process to ensure the quality of the article before it is published.
You can find articles written in academic journals by using MultiSearch, searching our Speech and Hearing databases, or Google Scholar.
Full text database of books, encyclopedias and other reference works relating to research methodology
Other useful databases
Overton searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers