Q. How do I access eJournal articles through Library Discover?

The Library provides access to thousands of journal articles. Some journal titles are available as both print and electronic, most are electronic only.

You can search for eJournals using the Library's single search tool Library Discover.

Searching for eJournal articles using Discover

When you search Library Discover, you are searching across many eJournals, either as individual titles or as collections of eJournals held within databases.

We suggest you sign in to get complete results and to request items, select Sign In in top right corner and enter your LJMU username (username@ljmu.ac.uk) and password.

Using Filter my results on the left-hand side of the screen, you can refine your search to just Articles under Resource Type.

Under Availability there are also options to limit your results to Peer-reviewed Journals, Full Text Online or Open Access. There is also the option to refine to a specific Journal Title.

From your list of results, there may be a link stating Available Online which will take you direct to the article.

If you see the option Download PDF, the PDF will appear on your screen with just one click, this option is only displayed if a direct path to PDF is available. Download PDF via Unpaywall works in the same way as 'Download PDF’ for articles that are freely available as Open Access.

Read Article provides direct access to the article on the platform on which it appears, for example ProQuest. It’s another very fast way of accessing the full-text of an article from the search result screen.

You may also be able to browse journal contents by selecting View journal contents or View issue contents which opens either the journal’s current issue or the exact issue in Browzine and you can also access previous years or volumes.

Otherwise click on the article's title to view the full record, and in the View It section of the screen you will find a link to the article, for example "Full text available at: EBSCOhost Education Research Complete". Before you can access the article you may be prompted to log in with your LJMU username and password if you haven't already done so.

Further information is available in the Library Discover user guide (PDF, 1.1MB) and in Library Skills.

Please note: Collaborative partner access to library resources varies from partner to partner and resource to resource. Collaborative Staff and Students (Collaborative Partners) may not have access to all library resources.