These are some of the questions a lot of students have when getting started on major research projects like comps.  Don't hesitate to ask me for more help with these or any other question you might have.

Even when you're not on campus, you can still use the library's online resources (e.g., subscriptions to journals, bibliographic databases). Find databases like JSTOR and EconLit on the Databases list and, when you click on them, you should be taken to the blue Carleton login screen. If that doesn't happen, log in to the proxy server linked on the off-campus access page linked below and you'll be able to access the library's resources as if you were here.

If you want to know if Carleton subscribes to a particular journal (print and/or electronic), do one of the following:

1. From the library home page, Articles tab, click the Browse Journals button. Search in the Journal Search for your title. If the journal is available electronically, follow the link. If a journal is available in paper at Carleton, write down the call number and go find it on 3rd.

2. Search for the journal title in Catalyst from the main page of the library web site. You may need to filter to Journals on the left.

Scholarly journals are going to be found, in most cases, either online or in print.

Searching Catalyst and using the Find It button are the best ways to determine what kind of subscription the library has and how to get your hands (or eyes, as the case may be) on it.

Following are explanations of the different results you'll get using the Find It button.

Instant Electronic Access

When you click the "Find It!" button, you will be taken to a record for the article in Catalyst. That record will tell you whether this is available electronically, in print, both, or neither. If it is available, you will see a message "Online Access" near the top of the page.

Click the Online Access button and you should be taken straight to the article. 

If it doesn't work or you want to find other options, scroll down to see the electronic options for that article...

Follow a link and you'll be taken to the article.

Print Journals

If the library subscribes in print, you need to find the call number for the journal in Catalyst. Then go to the moving stacks on the 3rd floor of the library where the journals are. Catalyst shows the call number so you know where to find it on 3rd Libe.

If the print copy is only at St. Olaf, log in to Catalyst, then click the St. Olaf Library entry to expand it. Find the issue you need, then click the Request link to have the journal sent over to Carleton, where you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk.

Carleton Doesn't Subscribe

If Carleton doesn't subscribe to the journal for the issue you need, make a request through Interlibrary Loan.