Journals

Locating journals

To find  printed and electronic  versions of a particular journal title, you can search for journals by title by entering that title into the Library catalogue|. If the Library subscribes to both formats, there will be one entry for each version. 

To access the  electronic version, hit the "Click here for full text" link in the catalogue record for the title that has "Electronic resource" as its sub-title. Alternatively, go to the  Journals| page via the Collections| pages. You can then search for journals alphabetically, by title, by subject or by ISSN.  The journals can then be accessed via your LSE username and password.

The  printed  version will have a classmark on the catalogue record. If the Library does not have the printed journal, check the electronic journals link mentioned above.  All issues of printed journals are at the relevant classmark in the Main Collection.

To run a quick search of the Library catalogue, enter the name of your required journal into the search box below:

Journals not held at LSE

If LSE does not have the printed or electronic version of a journal then you can check to see if other libraries have it using: Suncat|, which is a federated catalogue of UK journal holdings or the  Union List of Serials| for journal holdings across London University or  COPAC|  across the UK. 

Use the  Interlending and Document Delivery (IDD)| service for journal articles that you cannot easily get yourself by clicking on the "Requests and inter-lending" button on the  Library Catalogue| and select the "ILL Journal Request (NOT FOR LSE REQUESTS)" option.

Locating journal articles

The Library Catalogue does not have journal articles on it, so you must use a journal article finder to find out what has been published on your topic. If you already know which journal title you are looking for, see the section above.  Do not limit yourself to finding journal articles by using Google or the Electronic  journals page: you will miss a great deal of relevant articles.  Google Scholar|  is worth looking at and links through to the Library's electronic journals holdings; however, it is not as comprehensive as the services listed below.

The Library provides a searching service for LSE staff and students called  Cross Searcher|  that searches the content of a number of selected databases and resources. This can be used to find journal articles by title, and where available links through to the full text, using the LSE article finder orange button. To run a quick search of Cross Searcher, enter your search terms into the box below:

There are a number of bibliographic databases which index journal articles. These are excellent tools for doing literature searches that will cover all the journal literature in your area of research:

• The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences covers a broad range including many European journals. Also good for finding book reviews and review articles.
• Historical Abstracts is leading database for tracing journal articles and book reviews relating to history. It indexes and abstracts more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Most historical topics are covered. Including world history, military history and womens history from 1450 to the present day. It does not provide coverage for North America.
• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) ontains the full text of a large number of documents relevant to the study of international relations. These include full text working papers from over 50 institutions and think tanks, full text conference proceedings and abstracts of articles published in leading international affairs journals.
• Russian Academy of Sciences bibliographies is a searchable database which provides bibliographic references to journal articles, reports, essays and book reviews covering a wide range of social science subjects including: history, politics, philosophy and economics. The majority of materials have been published in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe.
• The Central and East European Online Library is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.