- If you have retrieved a journal article online, and it has no DOI (Digital Object Identifier) on its first page -- see Stephanie Wiegand's APA Style, 6th Ed. for an explanation of DOIs -- APA wants you to put the journal's homepage's URL at the end of the citation: e.g. "Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/journals/ce"
Using Google to find journals' homepages
- In Google, type the journal's title (not the article's title) in double quotation marks
- For example, looking for the homepage of the journal The Canadian Journal of Education, type: "canadian journal of education"
- Note that the journal's homepage may not come up as the first hit, so you might have to dig
- This is the homepage of The Canadian Journal of Education: http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/
- This one happens to come up first in a Google search, but this is not the case with many journals. Many pages that come up first in Google are ones that are trying to sell you the journal's content, so be wary
- You can tell a journal's homepage because it will have information about the journal, its editors or editorial board, submitting articles to it, how to subscribe, etc.
Using Ulrich's Periodical Index to find journals' homepages
- Ulrich's Periodical Index is a database that lists many journals published worldwide
- The U of R Archer Library subscribes to it
- If Ulrich's have an entry for the journal, they'll include the journal's homepage
- To search for a journal in Ulrich's:
- Click on the link above, or:
- Go to the Library's homepage, http://www.uregina.ca/library
- Click Search/Find on the left side of the page, click Articles, Databases & More
- Under Find Database by Title, type: ulrich
- Click Find
- If you’re coming from off campus, you’ll be asked for an ID and password. Your ID is your last name, without hyphens or spaces and in lower case, and your password is the barcode number (not student number) on your student ID card. You can also use your U of R e-mail/URCourses/computer account ID and password instead
- In Ulrich's, go to the Quick Search box located in the centre of the screen
- Type the journal's title (not the article's title), e.g. canadian journal of education
- You don't need quotation marks
- Start your search by clicking the green magnifying glass icon
- In the list of titles, click Canadian Journal of Education
- Scroll down to the bottom of its full record to the Website: its homepage
- Actually, in this case, it's the Association that publishes the journal's homepage. You can get to the journal's homepage from this page
- Click Logout to exit Ulrich's when you're finished with it as only a few people can use it at a time
