You can access the print journal holdings by using the library catalogue.

You can only search for the journal title as specific individual articles are not in the catalogue, e.g. search for the name of the journal Harvard Law Review rather than an article in that journal. 

To access a print journal in the catalogue:

• Go to the library catalogue
• Type the name of the journal you are looking for in the Search box (e.g. Harvard Law Review)
• Narrow your search to by clicking on the Print Journal option under the Format facet in the left bar.
• From the reduced list find your title
• Click on the Show library holdings option to see the date/volume range that we hold - for more details click on the title of the journal.
• If you cannot locate any printed holdings, try an e-journals search in findit @UCD Library - a great many titles are now electronic only.

Print journals are arranged on the shelves in shelfmark order (alphabetically in Richview Library). 

Within each shelfmark, they are arranged alphabetically by title. For example:

Law journals are shelved at J340 (J for Journal, 340 for Law)

The Harvard Law Review is shelved at J340/HAR.

Generally, print journals are for reference only: they can be consulted or photocopied in the Library.

There are just a few titles that you can borrow. They are marked in the catalogue as Lending Journals.

E-Journals are journals published online. Our e-journals can all be accessed through findit @UCDLibrary.

To access an e-journal:

• Log in to findit @UCD Library, using your UCD Connect details
• Click on the e-journals tab
• Search for your journal by title.

Your reading list might contain an e-journal article like the one below:

Armstrong, K.A., 1998 ‘Legal Integration: Theorizing the Legal Dimension of European Integration’ Journal of Common Market Studies , 36(2) pp 155-175

This is what you need to know about this reference or citation:

• To find this article, you need to search for the journal title
• Log into findit @UCD Library
• Click the eJournals tab
• Type Journal of Common Market Studies in the search box and click Search
• Click on the findit button
• You will see that this journal is available in a number of different databases. The databases hold different years of the journal. The article we need is from 1998 and the database Business Source Complete has coverage from 1964 to a year ago.
  
   

• Click on the Go link to Business Source Complete. Select the year from the new screen that you see - i.e., 1998 on the right hand side - and you will see a list of that journal year’s volumes and issue numbers.
• You are looking for volume 36, issue 2. Click on this link
• Armstrong’s article is the second on the list of contents
• Click on the link for full-text.

Another approach that you can also try if you have full details of the article you need, such as those shown in the example above, is the Citation Linker tab in findit @UCD Library in the journals section.

This sometimes gives you a direct link to the article and saves time as you don’t have to navigate down through the years and volumes available for the journal title.