Find Full Text
What is it?
The Library's web site gives you access to thousands of electronic
resources. Some of these are full-text articles and e-journals, while
others are citation databases, ie, they give you index information or
an abstract about an article or book chapter, but not the full text.
Find Full Text is the
Library's linking service that connects citation databases
to full text in a range of sources including: electronic journals;
print journals from the library catalogue; and the Internet.
What do you see?
When you search a citation database and the results are displayed, a button like the one above may appear. Clicking on this button will lead you to a page of retrieval options, often including the complete text of an article.
Why is it good?
It makes it much quicker for you to navigate to:
- full text from an abstract, index or citation
- the catalogue to check for print copies or alternative electronic copies
- an article title search on Google
It gives you choice:
- the Library has a number of journals available through different
publishers and in differing formats, ie, PDF (varying file sizes),
HTML and email output. There can also be different options for delivering
the abstract and the text. With Find Full Text
you can choose the format you prefer.
- when a web site is unavailable or faulty, you may be able to go
to an alternative source.
It is not easy to determine the “best” resource for a given subject
– you might prefer a database that provides wide subject coverage, but
it might provide only abstracts for relevant material. Meanwhile,
the Library may well offer access to the same content in full-text form
but only in a different database. Find Full Text connects you to full-text resources you might otherwise
be unaware of.
Instructions
Here is an example using the Medline medical database.
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1. A
user conducts a search in Medline for "bone marrow",
finding a useful citation from the Journal of Pain &
Symptom Management. Next to the citation is a small
Find Full Text
icon. While Medline offers abstracts of articles,
clicking the Find Full Text icon generates a new page with related links.
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The Find Full Text screen offers access to the full text of the article
– drawn from the library's subscription to the electronic version
of Journal of Pain & Symptom Management
in the ScienceDirect database. A link
is also provided to a search for paper holdings in the library catalogue.
Two other links go to Google searches, which can be useful
if the article is available for free on the author's web site,
for instance.
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Prior to the availability of Find Full Text, only searchers who performed their original
search in ScienceDirect would have had easy access to the full-text content
and they would have missed the many additional sources that
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Off-campus access
When you access databases off campus via the Library website, you will enter your NetID
and password when you click a database's Connect button. You
should not be required to enter a password again when you click a Find Full Text button. Off-campus access
information.
Technology
Find Full Text uses SFX software from Ex
Libris Inc. The system is based on the Z39.88 OpenURL standard.
In essence it takes the article details from the citation database,
looks up our Find Full Text database
for available copies, then provides you with a list of available options.
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