Step Five: Locate the Text
Through the Card Catalog

Not all journals held by Yale have records in Orbis. Many older journals are still represented only in the Sterling card catalog:

This card represents publishing
details about the journal.
IT DOESN'T INDICATE WHICH
VOLUMES YALE OWNS.

This card represents which
volumes and dates of the journal
Yale owns.

Fewer than 100 journal titles shelve in the Franke Periodical Room annex, but they are Sterling's most heavily used titles. Most bound volumes of journals shelve in the Sterling stacks arranged by call number and are located using the Sterling Stack Directory (this shelves on Floor 7).