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The other pages of MetaLib and Get it! help are available in the left navigation or on the main MetaLib and Get it! help page.
To access the 'Find eJournal' option within MetaLib, use the 'Find eJournal' link on MetaLib home or on the navigation bar.
Find eJournal enables you to search our eJournals catalogue from within MetaLib. Please note that you can also use Quick search > Journals on the Library home page to search the eJournals catalogue and the Library Catalogue for print journals.
You can search for journal titles that 'Contain' or 'Starts with' the keyword(s) you enter. The catalogue will also try to find matches for abbreviated journal titles, and acronyms may work for key titles, e.g., use NEJM for New England Journal of Medicine. Alternatively, it is possible to browse by the first significant letter in the journal title. Electronic journals which we subscribe to, and freely available electronic journals, are included in the catalogue, together with information about the date ranges we have access to. Use the resulting links to access the journal online, or to view the Get It! menu.
The Get It! menu can be used to check what print holdings we have of a particular journal, by using the 'Check print holdings using University of Bristol library catalogue' option. Find eJournal will not find journals where we only have hard copy holdings in print, you will need to search the Library Catalogue separately for these.
If you want to find journal articles on a particular subject, or by a particular author, you will probably need to use one of the many reference databases included in MetaLib, such as Web of Science or ZETOC. Subject specific databases are available in the Subject categories of Cross-search. The Quick search > Articles & databases option on the Library home page includes a 'Quick search for articles via MetaLib' option which can be useful for simple keyword searching. There is also a 'Material type -- Journal impact factors' category of Cross-search for accessing data indicating how important different journal titles are.