Oxford LibGuides: Oxfordshire History for Continuing Education: Journals

Finding Journals and journal articles

On this page you can find out about:

Understanding journal citations/references (box on right)
Using SOLO to find journal titles (online and in print) and to find specific journal articles
Key journals for Oxfordshire history

If you are interested in searching SOLO for articles on your topic, click on the tab Oxford's online resources

Using SOLO to find journal titles and articles

You can use SOLO to find journal titles and articles. Please see our top tips below or for more information see the SOLO Help guide.

When searching for specific journals and articles it is helpful to understand the different parts of the journal citation (see the box opposite for more information)
Use the Search Everything or the Oxford Collections search in SOLO to search for journal titles
Use the Articles search in SOLO to search for journal articles (see image below)
Omit information such as volume, issue and page numbers from your SOLO search as SOLO will not always understand them.
Results will include journals in both digital and physical format. You can limit your results to a specific format using the options under Sort & Filter Results
Use e-Journals A-Z to browse the complete list of online journal titles subscribed to by Oxford University
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Key Journals

Oxoniensia
Annual journal of the Oxfordshire Architectural and historical Society. Freely available without using Single Sign On except for the most recent 5 years. Print copies of the most recent years are available in the Continuing Education Library (most recent issue in the Reading Room, older issues with the Archaeology journals in the Lower Library). There are also loan copies of some older volumes (in the Local Collection in the Upper Library).
Cake & Cockhorse
Journal of the Banbury Historical Society, freely available online.
Jackson's Oxford Journal
18th/19th Century newspaper. Also available online via the Oxfordshire public library system.
Oxfordshire Local History
Journal of the Oxfordshire Local History Association (OLHA), mainly publishing articles written by amateur local historians. Articles older than 5 years are freely available via a searchable index. Print copies are available in the Local Collection in the Continuing Education Library.
Wychwoods History
Journal of the Wychwoods Local History Association, freely available online. Some print copies are available in the Local History Collection in the Continuing Education Library.

Understanding journal citations

A citation to a journal article will include several pieces of key information:

Author(s) name
Year of publication
Article title
Journal title (this is the name of the journal or publication in which the article appeared. The journal title often includes the word 'journal' or 'review' (e.g. English Historical Review, Journal of Ecology) or the word Quarterly or Transactions (e.g. Human Rights Quarterly; Philosophical Transactions). Others give fewer clues (e.g. Nature, History Today, The Guardian, Landscapes)
Volume, issue number and pages numbers

e.g. Meaden, G. Terence, 2017. Drombeg Stone Circle, Ireland, analyzed with respect to sunrises and lithic shadow-casting for the eight traditional agricultural festival dates and further validated by photography. Journal of Lithic Studies, 4(4), pp. 1-17

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journal title
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