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Last quarter the VDOT Research Library added three new online journals to its technical collections.
Those, and all of VDOT's online journal subscriptions, provide free and unlimited full-text downloads for VDOT employees—including anyone who happens to be working from a home computer off the VDOT network.
The fact is, VDOT employees have access to more journals than they may realize...and the list is constantly growing, especially our electronic subscriptions!
But is there a single place where you can see a "scrollable" list of all journals offered by the library?
Until now the answer to that question has been no. While it is not perfect, we put together this "scrollable" Core Journals List of the top 200 or so transportation journal subscriptions to make it easier to find the journals you need.
Library patrons have always been able to "look up" any journal by name with the library's online catalog, but that's more of a "look up" than a "list." Fact is, we provide some form of access (print, online or both) to thousands of journals. So perhaps a scrollable list of every journal might be more than the average library user wants to deal with!
The beauty of this Core Journals List is that it gives you quick one-click access to the journals you and your peers at VDOT tend to use the most. This short video shows how to make the most of the List:
Why does finding journals have to be so challenging?
Well, part of it is due to the fact that you can access some journals (for some years) in print, some online, and some in both formats! Of course, we don't have everything, so you may need an article from a journal we do not have a subscription to. As such resources are requested (when we spot that "trend"), we are gradually adding one-off subscriptions to individual journals, like the three titles mentioned at the top of this article.
Historically, however, it has been more common (and more realistic) for the library to provide online access to journals as part of large "multi-journal online database bundles" which tend to have comprehensive coverage for recent years and which can contain tens of thousands or even millions of articles.
Examples such journal bundles include:
Looking for an article that is from a journal NOT on the list (and NOT in the library's online catalog) as far as you can tell?
Well, just because we don't have a full blown subscription doesn't mean we can't get the article you need!
Simply fill out this Document Delivery Request Form and we'll find and deliver any article you need in the next 1-2 weeks.
Ken Winter
(434) 962-8979
VDOT Research Library
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