Q. How do I access eJournal articles through 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 Discover.

Searching for eJournal articles using Discover

When you search 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, you’ll see ‘Sign In’ in top right corner, click here 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. ‘Read Article’ provides one-click access to the article on the platform on which it appears, e.g. Proquest. It’s another very fast way of accessing the full-text of an article from the search result screen. Download PDF via Unpaywall works in the same way as ‘Download PDF’ for articles that are freely available as Open Access.  

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/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, e.g. "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.

There’s links below to a user guide for Discover and to the Library Skills section of the website.

Collaborative partner access to library resources varies from partner to partner and resource to resource. Collaborative Staff and Students (Partner Institutions) may not have access to all library resources.