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Library Catalogue
The traditional use of a library catalogue is to find books and journals that are on the library shelves. But you can use our catalogue to find articles which appear on your reading list, and to access the full text of the articles electronically. Before you start, please refer to the information about off-campus access to Reserve articles. Not all articles are available in this way, for more information please see below.Electronic Reserve or E-Reserve
Start by checking the Reserve module of the Library catalogue, under your Unit of Study or Lecturer's name.
- Go to the Library Catalogue and bookmark it (http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/).
- Click reserve at the top.
- Search by Unit of Study or Lecturer
- Enter the information. For example:
Unit of Study - PMGT 5876, or Strategic delivery of change
Lecturer - Liu, Li - Any titles marked Electronic item can be accessed online
- Click on the title, then click connect to the full text article
If the article you want is not listed, try the method under Electronic Journals. You can also email us to request for the article to be placed into Electronic Reserve (the article must be on the reading list of your Unit of Study).
Electronic Journals
If your article is not in electronic reserve, it may be available from an electronic journal. In this case, you can still use the catalogue, searching under the journal title. Here is an example:
Madsen, Jana J.(2003),'From Benchmarking to Best Practices', Buildings, 97 (4), 42.
Follow these steps to find the full text:
- Go to the Library Catalogue (see above).
- Click > Journal under Other Searches.
- Type the name of the journal into the box, ie. Buildings (not the article title).
- Choose the collection scope 'e-journals' from the second drop box.
- Click the Submit button.
- Click the electronic link for the journal (Buildings Online).
- Click one of the full text links (depending on the year you require)
- Select the appropriate year (2003), volume (97) and issue number (4).
- Select the article from the table of contents (42 is the page number).
- Look for the link to the PDF file.
If you cannot find the article you want, go to the next section about Electronic Databases.
More about the Library Catalogue
To learn more about using the library catalogue, see
Check the Library Catalogue for journal articles,
catalogue help, or
online catalogue tutorial.
