The RACGP John Murtagh Library
Using the journal service
This short web-based tutorial will guide you through using the RACGP
John Murtagh Library journal service. Click on the links to reveal more
information. Click again on the link to minimise it.
1. What is the
journal service?
Through the Library's journal service, you
can:
- Request articles from stock or other libraries' collections
- Subscribe to a monthly tables of contents service (ETOC)
- Access full-text articles online through EBSCOHost, Proquest,
Informit, our
enhanced A-Z listing of holdings, or our Oxford journals collection
- Come in to the Library for browsing the collection or
photocopying
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2. How do I request an
article?
You can either:
- Make an online request with our web-form by following the
procedures below:
1. Go to the main Library page at
www.racgp.org.au/library
2. Scroll down and click on the journal article request
form at
www.racgp.org.au/library/
requestarticle
3. Fill in all the personal and reference details
required and:
4. Click submit request, bearing in
mind the
copyright
declaration on the form.
You will receive a confirmation email, and we'll obtain the article from
our collections (or other Libraries), and send it to you in the format
of your choosing as soon as possible.
Or:
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3. I'd like to
access monthly tables of contents from your journals. How do I set this
up?
The Library provides packages of online
tables of contents each month, which require your username and password
to access. At the start of each month we send out an emailed alert which
provides links to these packages. To join the subscription list for this
alert service, you need to:
1. Go to the Library home page.
2. Click on the 'journals' navigation bar to the left
of
the screen.
3. Click on the 'ETOC' section within this navigation
area. You'll need to be logged in to access this section.
4. At the bottom of this page is a choice of the PDF
version of the 'Register for the eTOC service' or the web version.
Filling out either and sending via fax or via the web-form is
sufficient.
5. After we receive your registration we will confirm
this with you via email. The alerts to access the online tables of
contents emails will commence the next
month.
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4. How do I find
out what journals you hold in the Library?
There are two ways. You can either:
1. Go to the Library home page.
2. Click on the 'journals' navigation bar to the left
of
the screen.
3. Click on the 'Library journal holdings' section
within this navigation
area.
4. This will bring up our list of journals with the
physical holdings that we have in the Library.
Or repeat steps 1 and 2, then:
3. Click on the 'Enhanced journal list A-Z' section
within this navigation
area. You'll need to be logged in to access this page.
4. This will bring up a page with a link to our A-Z
journal listing. Click on the link at the bottom of the
page.
5.The Enhanced journal list A-Z is a separate page
which not only tracks
our holdings, but provides web-based full-text access to selected
resources such as journals on Proquest, Meditext and the Oxford
collection, as well as free web-based journals.
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5. Is there a
list of free online journals I can access?
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Yes. if you access the A-Z enhanced journal list (login required) you
will see
links to free journals as indicated by the icon on the screen example to
the right.
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6. Do you
have any audio journals?
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Yes. The Library subscribes to Audio Digest Family
Practice and
Pediatrics 2007 onwards. We have CDs available for loan from our
collection, and you can also download MP3 format files to play on your
MP3
player or stereo from our Downloads page, an example of which can be found to
the right. You'll need to be logged in to access these.
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