Answered By: Denise Crews
Last Updated: Feb 10, 2026     Views: 14

If you go into Primo, which is the main library search (click the blue pill-shaped search button from the main library page), you'll see a tab at the top of Primo that says "Journal Search." Click that tab to search for a journal by title or subject.  If you have an exact title, you can put it in quotation marks, too.

So, here I searched for a specific journal, and it came up:

https://regent.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/jsearch?query=any,contains,philosophy%20rhetoric&tab=jsearch_slot&vid=01REGENT_INST:01REGENT&lang=en&offset=0&journals=any,philosophy%20rhetoric

Sign in to Primo there, and then click the title of the journal, then one of the databases (in green) or use the bar to search inside the journal for a key word (this works for many journals, if not, just go into one of the databases). We have this journal in 4 different databases. Inside those, you can search inside or browse by issue.

In the Journal Search tab, you can also browse journals by subject. To find communication journals, for example, click Journalism & Communication on the left, then Communication & Mass Media, and you see all of these:

https://regent.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/jsearch?query=contains,dbcategory,&tab=jsearch_slot&sortby=title&vid=01REGENT_INST:01REGENT&lang=en&offset=0&journals=category,Journalism_Communications%E2%94%80Communication_Mass_Media

Or search by key words and you'll see all journals that have those key words in the title or description.

We also have a neat tool called BrowZine that allows you to browse journals by subject in a colorful format like a magazine stand.

In BrowZine, you can save your favorite journals on your personal "book shelf" and then read them when a new issue comes out.

 

 

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