You can search for journal tiles by using the full title, title words or simply subjects. Please note: you cannot search using an abbreviated journal title, e.g.: for Br J Orthod search for British Journal of Orthodontics.

First change 'Everything' to 'Books, Journal titles, etc'. Now enter your search terms and click 'Search'.

Under 'Refine my results' on the left, click on Journals.

In the Results list:

• Journal titles in BLACK indicate print holdings. Click 'Get It' to find out what years we hold - it should look something like this: 'Holdings: 2007 to date held in print'. You will need the shelf  mark. Almost all print journals are held on the mobile shelving on Level 0.
• Journal titles in BLUE indicate some or all of the content is accessed online. Click on 'View It' to see a link, the years you have access to, and any special instructions that you must follow once you have clicked the link to the provider platform. Please check carefully that the year you want is subscribed to and available! (Please note: after clicking the link you usually have to click year, volume and then part to get to the articles).

Open Access is a growing movement where researchers make their findings publicly and legally available for anyone to access. It may be that we do not have access to an article via subscription, but the research is openly and legally available elsewhere in a different format. There are also repositories of research data that are openly accessible and available to use. UK researchers for example, normally deposit a copy of their work into their institutional repository, and there are a variety of tools you can use to find these.

While Open Access journals are generally available in PRIMO, some recommended tools for finding 'hidden' open access content are listed below. Feel free to contact your information specialist for further assistance or information.

When using open access items it is important to understand that some open access items, such as 'pre-prints' are early draft versions of the work prior to passing peer-review.

At this point in your study, where you may not yet be knowledgeable enough to discern the quality of the methods, it is best to use Open Access 'author's drafts' where the final version has been published in a journal. This will give you some assurance of quality.

You should reference peer-reviewed open access items as if they were the published item and usually, there is guidance on this on the paper itself. There are even some established journals which are fully open access, which have their own peer-review systems.

• Endnote Click (formerly Kopernio) 

  Browser extension that checks for a UoP subscription via Primo and also Open Access versions. Endnote Click also links in with Endnote reference manager which means you can send full text and reference details straight to Endnote wiht one click for easy referencing.

• UnPaywall 

  UnPaywall browser extension pops up on web pages where a legal, Open Access version of an article is available, and links you to it.

• Open Access Button 

  Find legal open access versions of papers instantly. The Open Access Button is supported by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coaltion) http://sparceurope.org/. SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.

• CORE 

  CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
  CORE is a JISC and OU supported service.