Electronic Journal Portal
A good deal of access to journals, magazines and articles begins with a search of the library’s electronic holdings. From our main database page, we offer an E-Journal Portal tool that provides guidance to all of our digital journals.
To begin use of the E-Journal Portal, start at www.nypl.org:
Once at our homepage, simply click on “Articles and Databases,” The following page should appear:
On the left of the page in the grey menu, you will see two options for the E-Journal Portal:
- E-Journal Portal [from Home]
- E-Journal Portal [from the Branch Libraries]
The home E-Journal Portal will outline all of the journals available remotely, outside of an NYPL library.
The in-library E-Journal Portal offers links to all of the journals that are available within a branch or research library.
While several electronic resources can be accessed at home, many databases can only be accessed from within a library.
To use the E-Journal Portal simply type in the name of journal you are looking for.
Let’s say we would like to track down the following article:
Carson, Clayborne. “Two Cheers for Brown v. Board of Education.” The Journal of American History. 91.1 (2004): 26-31.
To retrieve this article, we need to locate The Journal of American History with coverage from 2004. Let’s type “Journal of American History” into the E-Journal Portal and click “Search”:
Here we are offered 3 separate databases that provide access to this journal:
We need to pay close attention to the time spans for coverage–if your article was published in 2004, JSTOR would be of little help to you. For an article from 2004, we would need to use Proquest Research Library or Academic Search Premier. Clicking on any one of these links will instantly begin a session with that database.
If we click on Proquest Research Library we will see:
We are now searching within The Journal of American History. Any search term that we type into the field 1. will look for those terms strictly within the journal. So we could type in “Carson Clayborne” or “Two Cheers for Brown v. Board of Education” and that should point us to our article.
In addition, we can simply click on the appropriate issue that contains our article. This link can be found at 2: our article is found in Volume 9 Issue 1 of The Journal of American History.
