Journals
Journals are published periodically, e.g. once a month. They are often published by commercial publishers, but the publisher can also be an institution or organization.
Journals address different groups of readers and have different purposes and use. Amelia and Science are entertainment respectively popular science journals and their target group is anybody interested. Other journals are more specialized and directed toward professionals, students or researchers in a certain field, e.g. Sygeplejersken and
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
When a journal article is “peer-reviewed”, its quality has been checked by other scientists before it was published. This system is most common in technology, medicine and science.
Journals almost always have an ISSN-number (International Standard Serial Number) which is unique for the journal and which is used for identification. The ISSN makes it easy to tell apart two journals with the same title or trace a journal that has changed title. An ISSN always consists of eight numbers with a hyphen in the middle: 0268-3962.
Apart from the ISSN you state year, volume or year and number to identify a certain number of a journal, and also pages if you want to identify a certain article. It can for example look like this: 2003(88):2, p.132-53 In order the following is stated: Year (volume/year): number, pages.
How can I find journals?
On the Library web site there is a link called “Find jornals” where you can see which journals the BTH library has access to, both print versions and electronic versions.
If you want to search for articles on a certain topic you need to search in other places. See the text on Scienctific articles or your subject guide in the Search guide to get tips about which databases you can search for articles on your subject field. In the Databases part you can get tips on how to search for articles in databases.
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Jenny Gunnarsson
2010-10-14
