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WorldCat Discovery User Guide

This guide provides an overview to WorldCat Discovery at the Wesley Theological Seminary Library.

How Do I Find Journals?

If you go directly to a publisher's website for a specific journal (through the URL or a search engine), you will not have access to the subscribed content. To search for and view the content of the library's journal subscriptions online, please use the Discovery A-Z link. If you are off campus, you will have to use your My Wesley user name and password for access. 

Using Discovery A-Z is one of a few ways to discover journals in the library's collection. You can use the Basic and Advanced searches in WorldCat Discovery, but you will have to construct search queries and filter the results to obtain the desired results. Instead, Discovery A-Z allows for focused searching of specific journal titles and collections that are indexed in the library's knowledge base. With the Journals search option in Discovery A-Z, you only need a journal title or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). 

1. Begin at the Discovery A-Z screen and click on the Journals link.

 

2. Enter the journal title or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) and select the search type.

 

3. The system will return the results that best match your search criteria.

 

4. Click the the journal title and the system displays a detailed item record that has links to the journal. In addition, the item record provides:

  • the publisher and database access information.
  • the publication year, volume, and issue.
  • the coverage of the journal within the database or publisher's holdings.

 

5. Click on the journal title in the item record, and you will be redirected to a detailed record of the publication with a list of the publication dates.

 

6. Click on the publication date, and you will get a list of the volumes and issues with full-text access.

 

7. Click on the volume and issue link, and you will be redirected to a list of the the full-text articles that you can access by using the PDF Full Text link.

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