Now that you have a list of citations, what are you going to do with them? At the moment, most of the references will be to print publications which you will need to look up in the catalogue (TRELLIS). This could be the topic of another entire tutorial. There are guides such as Finding References in the Library, and Finding Periodical Articles. Here are a few pointers:
Look for the SOurce field in the reference; this is what you will be looking for as a title in TRELLIS.
If the source uses an abbreviation for a journal name or conference title you must use the full name when searching TRELLIS; there are books of journal title abbreviations at the Information Desks in the Libraries.
Hook to holdings: A couple of database search systems have developed a function which checks the catalogue to see if we subscribe to the journal in the reference. This is variously know as Link to holdings or Locate Document. Clicking on that link starts a process in which the Library's catalogue is searched for that journal. If successful you can get the call number and location as well as checking that we do, indeed, have that issue.
Hook to holdings should be used with caution; the linking mechanism uses the journal ISSNs which are not present in all catalogue records. If you believe something should be here, check the catalogue directly.
Electronic Journals: An increasing number of database systems are adding links from the article citations to the journals in electronic format. You can do the search and get the articles without ever coming into the Library! As the software for this is still under development you will find some that take you to the article while others take you to the publisher's site and leave you to navigate to the article.
To make use of this feature you will usually need to have Adobe Reader installed and added to the helper applications list on your browser. Most e-journals are in .pdf format.
As with hook to holdings, links to e-journals should be used with caution; the linking mechanism has not been established for all of the e-journals to which we subscribe. If you believe something should be here, check the catalogue directly.
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