*IMPORTANT...PLEASE READ* Info on accessing online journals and ATHENS passowrd

Ok so I had a conversation with Paula earlier about the library thing and accessing all the online articles, journals etc and she asked me to blog about what you do. So this is what you need to do:

·         Go to the web help desk http://webhelpdesk.mdx.ac.uk/http://webhelpdesk.mdx.ac.uk/ and register then you will get an e mail with a username and password. Then go to the request tab and request a password for ATHENS which will be e mailed to you.

·         Then go on to libguides and click the tab ‘Library subject guides’ This is the link for this site http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/homepage

·         Click a subject i.e. ‘Dance’ http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/content.php?hs=a&pid=67146

·         Then click the tab saying ‘Journals’ http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/content.php?pid=67146&sid=495986

·         Choose a journal you want to look at i.e. ‘Dance Chronicle’ http://library.mdx.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=N2T31119280P3.672&profile=bg&uri=link=3100008~!145210~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=alpha&menu=search&ri=9&source=~!horizon&term=Dance+chronicle+%5Belectronic+resource%5D+%3A+DC.&index=ALTIJ#focus

·         It will come up with info about the journal and will say somewhere ‘full text available from JSTOR...’ etc click where it says ‘Middlesex university users click here’ http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=dancechronicle

·         It then comes up with a list of issues, click one of them i.e. the first one

·         Then it should have chapter headings, click one again i.e. the first one

·         Then it will show you the first page but it will say at the top ‘You are viewing the first page/citation. Full-text access may be available if you are affiliated with a participating library or publisher. Check access options or login if you have an account. ‘ Click LOGIN

THIS IS WHERE I GOT STUCK AT FIRST....SO THEN...

·         It will ask for  a JSTOR username and password but we do not have one and it is not the same as ATHENS

·         Scroll done past where it says JSTOR and it should say ‘OR ACCESS JSTOR THROUGH A PARTICIPATING INSTITUTION’. This is what you want.

·         Underneath the options box it should say ‘View all ATHENS institutions’. Click this and then click Middlesex university.

·         It should either log you in automatically or ask you to enter your Athens username and password that you would have been e mailed by the web help desk

·         Once you are in you can view the whole document and download it in PDF and look at all other journals etc

I know this sounds complicated but apparently we need it for this module as we have to find texts from it that have been written on our chosen subjects I think so it seems important and we have to do it! Hope this helps.