Visual Art: Journals

A journal is a scholarly publication containing articles written by researchers, academics and other experts. Journals focus on a specific discipline or field of study

• From the Library website click on  iCatalogue.
• Type in the title of the journal and click on the journal tab.
• Find the journal in the relevant section of the library.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Journal literature supplements the information you find in books.

Search databases for Journal articles and citations by using the  alphabetical list  https://library.ukzn.ac.za/databases-a-z/

• From the Electronic resources page option on the Library Website click on e-Journals A-Z, or choose 'e-Journals' from the options on the Primo page.

• Type in the title of the journal.

• If the journal is available online, access details will be provided showing where the journal appears and the time coverage

From the Electronic resources page option on the Library Website click on Resources than click on   Databases A-Z or Databases by subject (Visual Arts).

For example from the Database A-Z choose the following Subject

• Visual arts

          Arts full text via Wilson Web

          Searching tips for EBSCO

           EBSCO tutorial

           Project Muse

To find out if we have a particular journal title on PRIMO

• Click on ‘Find Resources’ and type in the title of the journal in the search box.
   
•  Select ‘Journals’ from the drop down menu below the search box.
   
• Click on the search button.
   
• Search results will show which are available in print (Locations) and online (Online resource)
   
• Follow the links to open the article

UKZN Library offers an Interlibrary loan (ILL) facility through which journals can be borrowed from other libraries in the country if available. Copies of journal articles may be requested and if it cannot be scanned and emailed there is a fee for this.