Periodicals

Journals or periodicals are continuous publications such as journals, newspapers, magazines. Learned journals report on developments in scholarly research in the form of articles which ar normally refereed by peers (peer-reviewed) in the field of expertise to which the journal is dedicated. Professional journals are newsletter-type publications of associations and are written for members of the association. They often contain a mixture of news, brief articles and letters along with information on forthcoming events such as conferences. Most statistics and official publications are also continuous publications. The EBIB holding list of current/continuous publications includes this type of publications as well. Nevertheless, statistics and official publications are treated as a seperate item on the portal starting page.

Journal titles can be searched in library catalogues or in bibliographies. The Limo-catalogue includes records for all the periodicals which are acquired by the K.U. Leuven and Limo-net libraries. The Limo-catalogue does not include information on the articles within those periodicals. To find references to individual journal articles by subject, article author, or article title, use periodical indexes or indexing & abstracting databases.
To find the (full) text of the articles use catalogues to locate the journal (title) or use full-text (journals) databases.
Journal titles:
To locate a print or electronic copy of a journal use journal catalogues to find out which library collection has the journal you are looking for. Serials directories are lists of journal titles with publisher's and price info but without location. Access to full text journals is handled as a separate item.Referecence databases often link directly - via the button - check for holdings - to the periodicals union catalogye Antilope for the journals which are not available full text (e.g. ABI/Inform, EconLit, Inspec, Current Contents, Ebscohost etc.).

Journal catalogues:

• In the Limo-catalogue journal titles are integrated in the title index, e.g. if you Browse indexes for Harvard Business Review you get 8 items incl. the journal with a list of copies & holdings in the different Limo-Net libraries.
• Use Antilope - the union catalogue of periodicals - to find journals in the Royal Library,other university, research and special libraries in Belgium. Also the collections of the Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD), the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie voor Wetenschappen (KNAW), the Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (BLUW) ,the Institut National pour l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) and the British Library Document Supply Centre (UK). You can easily put an ILL request for items from this libraries. You can also search Antilope via the CCB - Union Catalogue of Belgian Research Libraries.
• Online Contents PiCarta - Database with Table of Contents of journals in Dutch libraries is not only a bibliogrpahic tool, but also a union catalogue of periodicals in Dutch libraries.
• ZDB - ZeitschriftenDatenBank is the union catalogue of periodicals in German libraries.
• Myriade - Catalogue collectif national des publications en série, union catalogue of periodicals in French libraries.

Lists of journals:
• ULRICH's International Periodicals Directory Online (BOWKER)

Current awareness services:
To find articles published within the last six months, many may not yet have been indexed. Therefore you wille need to use alerting or current awareness services.An alerting service lets you know what has just been published or is about to be published. Alerting services attempt to bridge the gap between the time an article is published in a journal and the time when it is indexed in an indexing journal.

Full text e-journals:
Roughly speaking electronic journals are offered in two ways:

1. publishers who provide access to their own titles and
2. aggregators who provide access to the content of journals, based on agreements with publishers and content providers.