Locating Serials
ABTAPL - Theological and Philosphical Libraries
ARLIS - art, architecture and design periodicals
British Library - all online catalogues
COPAC - search over 70 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues
Directory of Open Access Journals - a 'one-stop shop' for scholarly and scientific journals
Evidence in Health and Social Care - NHS England, journals and databases
Find Electronic Journals (British Library)
HighWire (Stanford University) - free online full-text articles
SUNCAT - a searchable full list of the 73 libraries contributing to SUNCAT (Serials Union Catalogue)
SALSER - serials catalogue for Scottish academic and research libraries
UK PubMed Central - a free information resource for biomedical and health researchers
SearchM25 -M25 consortium of academic libraries
WorldCat - 'the world's largest library catalogue'
Periodicals loans
In the summer of 2007, a mapping exercise carried out by Andy Jack of the LSE identified a number of libraries willing to loan periodicals. These are listed below, with a note of some stated restrictions.
Bangor University (BN/U-1)
Case by case - nothing new and nothing irreplaceable
Bristol University (BR/U-1)
Case by case
British Library for Development Studies (BT/U-5)
Nothing current or in heavy use
Cambridge (CA/U-1)
Nothing received under Legal Deposit or published in last 12 months
Exeter University (EX/U-1)
Nothing current
Glasgow University (GL/U-1)
Nothing from current year
LSE (LO/U-3)
Nothing except IGO's and Government Publications (not US, UN EU or Statistics)
Swansea University (SW/U-1)
Last 6 months restricted
UCL (LO/U-2)
Case by case - no Science Journals
