What is a journal?
A journal is like an academic magazine where scholars have written articles about their research.
What is the difference between a book and a journal article?
A book is a longer, and a usually more comprehensive text on a subject.
Journal articles are shorter, and more specific. They are published more frequently and so have more up-to-date information than books do.
Why use journals?
This presentation demonstrates how to find a specific journal title or article in UCT Libraries.
Click here to go directly to the Journal Search in Primo.
To find top journals in your field go to Journal Rankings from SCImago Journal Rankings (SJR)