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Articles search
Getting started
Getting started
Use the catalogue to find material in the Library's collections, including articles, books, photographs, maps, manuscripts and much more.
For more information, troubleshooting tips and detailed how-tos, refer to help using our catalogue page.
The State Library is not a lending library, so you cannot borrow books to take home. However, many of our collection items are available online.
You can reserve collection items for use within the Library, access thousands of e-resources, and order copies and extracts of collection items by becoming a Library member.
Journal search
Use Journal Search (found in the top menu of the catalogue) to look for journals by title, ISSN or browse subject listings.
Search by title
Type in the first words of the title.
From your results you can choose titles held by the library in print versions, and available online and peer reviewed.
Search by ISSN
The ISSN is a unique identifier for a serial/journal/magazine title, that generally will display title changes.
Search by category
For titles by category – subject categories will display after you have chosen your top-level category:
When you access an online journal you can then search within the journal for specific articles:
