Journal Finder

Information & Features

Welcome to Journal Finder! Journal Finder allows your patrons to determine if your library carries a journal title through:

  1. electronic access
  2. print
  3. document delivery and/or interlibrary loan
  4. if a local library carries the title

In other words, there is always an option for finding the journal article that you need, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Recent presentations and articles about Journal Finder

Product Information

  1. All of your journals at one single access point
  2. Multiple means of accessing journal titles (electronic, print, document delivery, etc.)
  3. Automatically updated list content -- if we share content, then yours is automatically updated!
  4. Locally hosted -- no installation or server headaches at your site
  5. Completely customizable: Tell us what you want, and we can make it happen.
  6. Can customize searching
  7. Robust Management Reporting
  8. Easy to use administration for maintaining content

Journal Finder runs on a Windows server and uses Microsoft SQL Server and ASP Pages, but the concept could easily be ported to other environments. UNCG is willing to share the Journal Finder package with the library community.

Advanced Features

  1. Sophisticated https database administration module, for use in maintaining data and generating reports.
  2. OPAC integration, allowing libraries to use their catalogs to find all electronic and print journal titles, while eliminating the need to ever populate or maintain MARC 856 fields for any serials in the catalog.
  3. Direct links to the journal title level for over 90% of our approximately 12,000 e-titles, including most major aggregators.
  4. The ability to link from a citation in one commercial database to the library catalog or directly to the full text article in another database (just as SFX does, but using locally-written scripts).