Generating a “Printed Journal Titles List" for the Research Notebook:

How to Narrow a Library Subject Search

to Periodical Titles Available in CCL

Using a graphical web browser (Netscape or Microsoft Explorer), visit the Camden-Carroll Library either by clicking its link on my home page or on MSU’s homepage (left, light blue column, bottom).

1. From CCL’s front page, select the first gold pennant, “Catalog.”

2. Select “Combination” as the search mode.

3. On the next page, click on the “Set Limits” button on the bottom right.

4. On the next page, inthe “Location” box, scroll down to and select “Periodicals.”

5. Above, on the same page,click on “Set Limits.”

6. On the next page that appears, in the first white box beside “Search for,” type the term that best describes your career or major and make sure that the “Search in” box is set on “Keyword Anywhere.”

7. At the bottom of the page, click on the “Search” button.

The result should be a list of journal titles in your field to which the library subscribes. Print the list and label it “CCL Print Journal Titles” to be placed in your Research Notebook and used for topic browsing and research.

While you can find a lot of good “stuff” online, don’t fail to take advantage of the hard copy or print materials at our finger tips on campus. We subscribe to some excellent reputable journals that are hard to find online. Moreover, it’s fun to go to the Current Issues area in the Periodicals Section of CCL, find the most recent issue of your journals, sit down and thumb through the index to see what’s being talked about by the professionals in your field. After you’ve perused the current issue, you can go on into the Periodicals Desk and ask for the past two or three issues of those titles and browse even more.