How to Locate Articles: Using FRANCIS Journal Title Search

FRANCIS only has information about what journals we own, not the articles that are within them. To find whether we have the article, search FRANCIS using the journal title.

Let's say you were looking for this citation:

Zandy, Janet. "'Women Have Always Sewed': The Production of Clothing and the Work of Women." Women's Studies Quarterly 1995 23(1-2): 162-168.

You would need to do a journal title search for Women's Studies Quarterly.

After entering the search, you would get these results.

The first record is for our print subscription and the second is for online subscriptions. Note: this first display only shows the three oldest issues of the journal.  Click on the journal title to see more information about the journal.

Start by looking at the first record. After choosing the record for the print journal, you will need to match the year from your citation to the years available at Williams.

Pay particular attention to the "Library Has" information. Does the year in your citation fit in the time period listed? Further down the screen you will see more details about our print holdings. Issues from the current year are listed under the "Latest Received" link. Older volumes are listed next with the oldest 10 volumes listed. To see more volumes, click the "View additional copies button."

For this example, you are looking for 1995, volume 23.  We have it, so you would write down the call number (HQ1101 .W68) and the volume, issue, and page numbers  (1995, vol. 23, p. 162) and retrieve the volume on the third floor to get the article.

If you are still curious whether you could get the article online, go back to the list of records and click on the record for the online subscription.

Look in the Connect To box to see the years we have available online. In this case, the years do not match the year in the citation (1995), so you would need to get the article through the print copy.