WorldCat.ORG is the world's largest network of library content. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and libraries around the world.  Use Worldcat.org to locate required course readings and library materials when they are not available through the CalSouthern Library. Locate which public or university library nearest to your zip code owns a particular journal publication, course books, videos, plus other library items. You may also find journal article citations with links to their full text. This quick tip will walk through the steps of locating an item in local library collections with Worldcat.org.

Visit Worldcat. org at http://worldcat Visit Worldcat.org at http://worldcat.org or Click on the link for Worldcat.org at the bottom of the Find an Article page of the CalSouthern Library website.

1. Type an item (title, author, keyword) in the search field (example: Journal of Applied Social Psychology) 2. Click Search everything button

printed journal ejournal in database 3. Click the Journal of applied social psychology link for the printed journal edition. Note: ejournals are only available to library patrons of the holding library. Your local public library may provide database access. printed journal ejournal in database

You 4. First set the location to your city, state in the Enter Location Information field and click the Go button. (example: Santa Ana, CA) The search results for this example, show the Libraries nearest to Santa Ana, CA that own the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. The University of California, Irvine at 5 miles distance is the nearest library that owns this journal. See the next slide for more library results. You

On this slide are additional libraries that own the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. If the library item you are interested in is owned only by university libraries and they are not accessible to you, you may want to request the item through your local public library’s interlibrary loan service. ILL services are typically free to library patrons. 5. Click on the link for the University of California, Irvine to see the UC’s library catalog record for the example journal.

catalog record for the journal of applied social psychology at uc, irvine Library.

Contact the University Librarian for more assistance with the databases. Email: Jennifer Hill, Director of Library Services library@calsouthern.edu