The University of Toledo Library provides access to over 33,000 electronic journals. The quickest way to find them is our UT Libraries Electronic Journal portal, which lists journals from OhioLINK, our own subscriptions, and full-text journals available in our many research databases.
The Library subscribes to nearly 3,000 periodicals in print format as well.Current issues of most periodicals, including newspapers, are kept on the second floor directly through the double doors at either end of the elevator lobby in the Current Periodical Reading Area.
Older issues are in bound volumes on the second and third floors of Carlson Library.
- Titles beginning with A through N are on the second floor
- Titles beginning with O through Z are on the third floor.
Older issues of some periodicals (particularly newspapers and weekly magazines) are kept in the Microform & Multimedia Reading Room on the third floor of Carlson Library. Older volumes of many periodicals are stored offsite at the Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository.
To determine whether an issue of a periodical is current or 'old', click on the "Latest Received" link in the UT Library Catalog page for a particular periodical. Issues that are labeled "BOUND" are on the second or third floors, and those labeled "ARRIVED" are still in the Current Periodical Reading Room. [Exception: Issues labeled "ARRIVED" with the notation "TB" (temporary binding) have been glued into paper covers and are shelved with the bound volumes on the second and third floors.] Issues labeled "TO BIND" are currently out of the library being processed, and are expected back after the date shown in the box..
Regardless of location, all periodicals are shelved alphabetically by title. Exceptions to this are certain periodicals with the name of an organization in the title; for example, the Journal of the American Chemical Society is shelved as American Chemical Society, Journal and will be found under 'A'.
Additionally, it is helpful to remember that every word in the title is considered when alphabetizing (even 'for' and 'of') except for initial articles such as A, An, and The. Titles that begin with acronyms, like I.I.E.E. Transactions..., will be shelved at the beginning of the letter of each letter of the alphabet.
See the How do I Find Articles page for more information about locating articles in periodicals. To see if we have a specific periodical, use our UT Libraries Electronic Journal portal to locate electronic versions, if available, or look it up by title in the UT Library Catalog. To narrow the search results, limit your search to Material Type: Journal/Serial. To see all of the periodicals (current and discontinued) that we have in a particular broad subject area, search by Subject and append the word Periodicals to your search: for example, History Periodicals. Alternatively, you can perform a keyword search for a broad topic term and limit the Material Type to "Journal/Serial".