Have a Citation and and Want the Article? Use Citation Linker

If you have a citation to an article, and would like to get hold of the article itself, Citation Linker may be the easiest way to locate either an online or print copy at Harvard.

For example, if you have this article citation and want to get hold of the actual article...

Jones, Wendy S., “Emma, Gender, and the Mind-Brain,” ELH, 2008 Summer; 75 (2): 315-343.

...you need first to locate the journal (ELH), then find the particular article (“Emma, Gender, and the Mind-Brain”) in Volume 75, Issue 2, Summer 2008, starting on page 315 in that journal.

Go to the Citation Linker (it's located on the Harvard Libraries portal page) and fill in the information the system prompts you to provide (journal title, volume, issue, date, starting page of the article), then click the purple Find It At Harvard button.

If Harvard owns the journal in electronic format, clicking the purple Find It At Harvard button will take you to a link message telling you where the electronic article is located, and clicking the link will take you there.

Those steps will get you to an electronic copy of an article if Harvard owns it online. It takes a couple more steps to find printed articles:

When you click the purple Find It At Harvard button, if you get the link message, “Check holdings in HOLLIS Catalog,” click that link -- it does an automatic search of the HOLLIS Online Catalog to find out which Harvard libraries own the journal in print.

Journals are usually shelved in two different places in Harvard Libraries. Current journals (published within the last year or so) are shelved in one area, while older journals are usually bound together in large book form and are often shelved alongside the books in the library stacks.

At Widener Library: Current issues of journals are in the Periodicals Reading Room on the 1st floor, and older, bound journals are shelved by call number in the Stacks. Note the call number HOLLIS provides to find journals at Widener, and use the Widener Call Number Location Chart to find older issues shelved among the books.

Hope this information will get you to the articles more surely and quickly!
At your service,
Cheryl