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Current journals are shelved in Stacks 16 - 16A on the ground floor beside the Reference collection. The most recent issue is shelved facing outwards and back issues are stored under the angled display shelf.

Journal Archive

Except for the current year, back issues of journals are shelved in the Journal Archive Stacks #8 - 12 on the Ground Floor. These are also arranged in Dewey Decimal Classification System order.

Journals may not be borrowed but articles maybe photocopied (subject to Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000).

Some print journals allow online access as part of the subscription. The link for online access is incorporated into the library catalogue record for the particular journal title e.g.
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E-JOURNALS

Apart from the print journals to which the library subscribes, there are over 17,000 journal, newspaper and magazine titles available in full-text to IT Carlow users via subscriptions to online databases. Off-campus access to these resources is also available to all staff and registered students of the Institute.

The library E-journal Portal is provided by Serials Solutions, an electronic resources management system. Serials Solutions allows the library user to search all the librarys electronic journals simultaneously. This search facility operates at journal title level only and not at article level.
To access Serial Solutions please click here.

Some sample searches from Serial Solutions are shown below:

Searching journals outside of IT Carlow subscriptions

Many journal publishers now provide free searching across all their journals.  Access, however, to the full-text of articles requires a subscription.  Nevertheless, the following multi-disciplinary online services may prove useful in identifying relevant articles, which may be available to you via the interlibrary loan system.

Blackwell Synergy ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		Blackwell Synergy is the online journals service from Blackwell Publishing. It holds the full-text articles of over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. The subjects covered range across Medicine, Science, Social Science and the Humanities.
Open Access Journals ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		140,000+ free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journal articles. A large proportion of journals are searchable at article level.
InformaWorld ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		informaworldTM is a one-stop site hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare
IngentaConnect ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		A comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. Covers all subjects.Search through 18 million citations from 29,000 journals. From within this database,IT Carlow users may link to the fulltext of articles from Emerald Journals, ScienceDirect Journals and IngentaConnect journals for which we hold a print subscription.
MetaPress ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		MetaPress is an innovative, controlled-access content-management service that formats publishers’ printed products for easy online viewing and provides a customized, branded host system to manage them.
PortalAcm ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		The ACM Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. It contains over 750,000 citations from 3,000+ publishers, covering: books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports. Non-Members of the ACM and the general public can freely access the Basic Search and Browse options.Students can register for free full access.
SAGE Publications ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.  SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.
SpringerLink ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		Springerlink is one of the world's leading interactive databases for high-quality journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. Even though IT Carlow does not have a full-text subscription to this resource, it is still a powerful central access point for students, researchers and academics. It provides an index to, and abstracts of, most of the published output of Springer Science+Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Swetswise ACCESS THIS RESOURCE		Select the 'IP authentication' link to enter. To access IT Carlow subscriptions, click on the 'Content Search' tab, then select 'publication search' from the drop down menu, select 'full text subscriptions' for the 'Show' box and click the 'Search' button.

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