• Go to the TCU database, Web of Science
• Click on the yellow tab at the top of the page titled “Additional Resources”
• Click on the link: “Journal Citation Reports”   (under ‘Analytical Tools’ heading)
• For business journals, you want to select “JCR Social Sciences Edition”
• I like to (A) “View a group of journals by subject category” since it provides a point of comparison, but you can also (B) search for a particular journal.  Make your choice and click the submit button
• If you have chosen option A from above, on the next screen, you just pick your subject category.  Please note that categories for business include: Business; Business, finance; Management; Transportation, and possibly some others.
• Once you get the search results (see screen shot below), if you don’t understand how a particular # is being determined, click on the ‘i’ button and then you will probably need to click on the ‘contents’ tab on the page that appears.

Here’s a sample of what you get (double click to enlarge):

EBSCOhost is a publisher (i.e., vendor) of various databases.  Here are some of the EBSCOhost databases that TCU subscribes to that you may be interested in: Fuente Academica, Communication & Mass Media Complete, EconLit, Academic Search Complete, MasterFile Premier, Newspaper Source, PsycInfo, Regional Business News, SocIndex, Vocational & Career Collection, and Business Source Complete.

Here are the step-by-step instructions for setting up a journal alert  If the directions ask you to set up an EBSCOhost account, you can set-up your own sub-account underneath TCU’s account with your own personally created user name/password.

Instructions to set up an RSS feed

Note: Business Source Complete contains the Harvard Business Review.

Another note: Most of our databases allow for Alert/Feed options, look for a ‘help’ icon within the database to find instructions.  Post a comment if you have another database that you want me to post these directions for!

1. In the TCU catalog, type the name of the journal/mag./newspaper into the search box and select “Journal/Serial name begins with…” in the drop down box.

Journal/Magazine/Newspaper search in Library Catalog

2.  Your search will take you into an alphabetical listing of TCU’s journals/mag./newspapers.  Do not fear the alphabetical listing!    Click on the link to your journal/mag./newspaper.  If no link with your title appears, we don’t have full-text access to that particular title.

Alphabetical Listing of Journal/Mag./Newspaper Links

3. The next screen will show you which databases have full-text to that journal and whether we have a physical copy in the library.  Pay attention to the date ranges listed next to the database name!  Your particular article has to fall within those date ranges in order to access full-text.

If the library has a physical copy, you will need to write down the call #.  Our journals & magazines are organized by call number (not alphabetically).  Also, bound journals (older journal copies that have been bound together in a book) have the same call # as the current issues, but are in a  different location.  Click the location link to see a map of where it is located.

Screen showing Journal/Mag/Newspaper locations