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Tips: "Journal Title keyword" searches

Use the Journal Title keyword search to find a journal, magazine, newspaper, etc, when you're not sure of its exact title. Pathfinder does not list individual articles; to find these, use article databases instead.

Example
You remember a psychology journal that had the word applied in the title.

1. In the search box, type:   applied psychology
2. Click on Journal Title keyword(s).
3. Click on the Search button.

Pathfinder retrieves all journals in the catalog that have the word applied and the word psychology anywhere in the title.

Wildcard searching

To find multiple forms of a word, type at least three letters, then an asterisk  *  immediately after the last letter. Pathfinder reads the  *  as a wildcard truncation symbol, and will search for words that begin with the letters you type. For example, searching psychol* would retrieve psychology, psychological, etc. For more options, see Truncation and Plurals.

With and Near

If your journal title contains the word with or near, leave it out of your keyword search or you may get unexpected results. If your keyword search retrieves too many items, try a Journal Title begins with... search where these words can be used normally. With and near have special functions in Pathfinder keyword searches. For more information, see Order & Closeness (proximity).

Note for experienced users

The Journal Title keyword search gets the same results as doing a Title keyword search and limiting the results to the publication format "Journal Titles".

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