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The free online
database jake (an acronym for jointly administered knowledge environment)
was created at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. This
database is used to • find
out which databases index or contain full-text articles from specific periodicals
and• expand
journal abbreviations(for example,
to find out that the abbreviation Engl Hist Rev stands for English Historical
Review).Jake can be very useful when you have a citation and want to find out which databases might offer the fulltext article. To help you use jake, the following sections explain how to • search
jake to locate information about periodicals,• interpret
jake search results, and• determine
if Tarleton libraries have the databases shown in jake search results.
You can search jake by • periodical
title,• title abbreviation,• ISSN, and
• date (volume,
issue, year).In addition, you can use truncation and wildcard symbols. Jake automatically truncates on the right (unless you turn this feature off). For left-truncation, use an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the title. You can use the * truncation symbol anywhere in the search, and it can represent any number of characters. The question mark (?) is used as a wildcard in jake and can be used to replace 0-1 characters. ISSN searches can either include the hyphen or leave it out. You can also use periodical title abbreviations when searching Jake However, the returns may reveal more than one journal. Therefore, you'll need to evaluate the returns and pick the most likely choice. UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Various symbols may appear in your search results. The + sign means that the database has citations (or full-text if the + is in the full-text column) for a journal, but the date range is unknown. Otherwise, a date will appear in the column indicating at which date the database began indexing the periodical or began providing full-text articles from the periodical. Jake can help users find full-text articles in several ways. "For thousands of journals, Jake can construct URLs to web sites for publishers or other providers of article ful- text. It can even take information like volume, issue, page, and year, and build URLs that will take you right to the article you're looking for. If it can't get to the specific article, it might still suggest links for issue lists (all available issues) or tables of contents for current or past issues." However, "jake can't do this for every journal; it can for journals whose full-text is made available by at least one provider who makes their title lists available to the jake project. Jake can't build article links for resources that don't have predictably constructable URLs, but we can still get you close to what you need." Once you get the jake search results, you must compare these results to the database holdings at the Tarleton libraries to see if they offer the desirsed database. The next section gives more details about this process. If the libraries have the desired database, you can then search that database for your journal article. Note, however, that some publishers place embargoes on periodicals and do not allow full-text articles to appear in databases for specific periods of time, ranging from a few weeks to 18 months. Therefore, the article may not be available in full-text format even though jake indicates that the periodical is offered full-text in specific databases. If this proves to be the case, you'll need to get the article from another library. See the "Obtain Items from Other Libraries" page for information about this process. UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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