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Sometimes, finding an article is as easy as typing the article title into Omni<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

If the article comes up with this method, click on it and look under \"View Online\" for links that will take you to the full article.<\/p>\n\n

If this method does not work (as in our example), move onto Step 2. <\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"0ad55ddb-efa6-4d8d-a0e0-1cce84df00f6","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"1. Search the article title in Omni"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Legal citations often use abbreviations to reference the title of the journal where an article is published. <\/p>\n\n

In our example, the abbreviation is \"Adv Q\". <\/p>\n\n

Here are a few sources for determining the meaning of an abbreviation:<\/p>\n\n

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Appendix D in the McGill Guide<\/a> provides a list of abbreviations used in the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation.<\/em><\/li>\n\t
The Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations<\/a> is a multinational index that allows you to search by abbreviation.<\/li>\n\t
If you found your citation using the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (see below), this index has its own abbreviation list (see ICLL Periodicals List<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Using Appendix D in the McGill Guide, we can determine that \"Adv Q\" in our example refers to the Advocate's Quarterly <\/em>journal.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"72d9ae0c-4ea4-49b3-ae77-548f570ca93a","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"2. Determine the name of the journal"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Next, use Omni's Journal Search<\/a> to search for the title of the journal (not <\/em>the title of the article).<\/p>\n\n
You may get several versions of the same journal in your results. For instance, in this example, there are two results<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n
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Advocate's Quarterly: A Canadian Journal for Practitioners of Civil Litigation. <\/em>This is listed as \"Available at Lederman Law Library\", which means it is a print journal.<\/li>\n\t
Advocate's Quarterly<\/em>. This is listed as \"Available Online\", but there is a note that the most recent 3 years are not available online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
This means we have two access points for the same journal.<\/p>\n\n
Our article is from 2023, which (as of this writing) falls within the most recent 3 years. You would therefore have to come and find this article on the shelf in the Law Library.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"0d25c912-e185-49f4-8eaf-12a1ff473a85","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"3. Type the journal title into Omni"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"
Once you've found the journal in Omni, you will likely need your article's volume and issue number to locate it.<\/p>\n\n
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If the article is only available in print, you'll need this information to pick the right volume off the shelf.<\/li>\n\t
If the article is online, you will usually have to click into the right volume and issue before you will see the article.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
In our example, we are looking for volume 54 and issue 1. <\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"0a358496-3146-48e7-8fd3-84015402c6b6","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"4. Navigate to the volume\/issue"}],"hTag":"h3"}

How to Find a Known Law Journal Article

Erica Friesen