HOW TO SEARCH FROM

E-JOURNAL

By : Fuschia groupACLIS 2010

Contents What is an E-journal?

Types of E-journals

What is DOAJ?

- Background information

- Features and characteristics of DOAJ

How to search from DOAJ?

Conclusion

Exercise

What is an E - journal?

• E- journal stands for Electronic journal.

• It provides its content over the internet

• Electronic version of a journal that is found

and read on web

• E-journals are published electronically

Online

journalsElectronic

serials

Electronical periodicals

Digital series or

d-journals

OTHER NAMES FOR E-JOURNALS

Types of E-journals

E-journal directories:

includes thousands of e-journals in one directory in multi languages. Example: www.doaj.org

E-Journal Pages: Many library websites provides e-journal page

Example : http://sfx.princeton.edu:9003/sfx_pul/az

What is DOAJ? (Background information of DOAJ)

• DOAJ is Directory of Open Access Journal

• That provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals

• DOAJ is hosted, maintained and partly funded by Lund University Libraries Head Office

Features and characteristics of DOAJ

• Different journals are in different languages

• Journals can be searched by :

- Title

- Subject

- Abbreviation of A-Z

- Author …… and so on

• Can get full text or abstracts from articles

Benefits of DOAJ to libraries

Helps to reduce shelving, mending of serials

Superior resource delivery

Improved service

Cost savingSatisfied usersProvides an opportunity for

concrete user education

Benefits of DOAJ to users

• Many users can get access at once

• Can get varieties of subjects at once

• Easy method of retrieving information

• Independent of using space and time

• Interact with other electronic resources

• Provides value addition such as search

ability, supplements, format unavailable

in print format

How to search from Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ)

• Use "Find journals" to search for journals

• If it is more than one word search query it will be treated as a phrase. You also have the possibility to use the Boolean operators and, or, not

• Use "Search articles" to search for articles

Search fields

Search fields Title

Journal title

ISSNAuthor

Keywords

Abstract

Conclusion E-journal is known as Electronic Journal

There are two types of e-journals

DOAJ stands for Directory of Open Access

Journal

It provides access to quality controlled Open

Access Journals

Lets do an exercise

THANK YOU

Group members:

• Maajidhaa• Shahuzana• Riyaza• Aroosha• Firaasha