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E-Journals and Find It

The E-Journal list and Find It offer two distinct ways to access publications electronically.

Find It provides links from a citation to the full text of that article, if available, and to other helpful resources and services. The E-Journals list, on the other hand, contains information on all journals catalogued by UW-Madison libraries and can be searched or browsed in a number of ways.

E-Journal List

  • Use the E-Journal list to find a specific journal electronically. If you're looking for articles on a topic, please use a database first.
  • It provides quick access to over 73,000 electronic journals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers that are also accessible through MadCat.
  • The E-Journal list has a Quick Search feature that allows you to search with four different options. Please consult the Search Tips for explanations of the database's many features.
  • The E-Journal list can also be accessed by clicking on the first letter of the journal title from the provided alphabet. Remember: do not use inital articles (a, an, the) when searching for titles.
  • The thousands of journals in the E-Journals list may also be browsed by subject and collection. Broad discipline-based categories have been created for subject; consult the About Subjects page for more detailed explanations. "Publisher/Provider" refers to the vendors which license electronic journal collections to UW-Madison. For specific information about collections refer to the About Collections page.

Find It

  • Find It includes a complete list of available journals. There are three options (in a pull-down menu) for searching a journal title:  "Exact Match", "Contains", and "Begins With".  Truncation (an asterisk) does not work with the "Exact Match" nor the "Begins With" searches but does work with the "Contains" search (e.g. entomolog*). NOTE:  truncated term searches take more time and can retrieve very many journal titles).
  • Find It can also be searched using the complete ISSN (International Standard Serial Number).
  • It is difficult to browse journals by title or subject in Find It. It is most useful when searching for a known item.
  • If you have specific questions about Find It, please consult the FAQ/Help page.