Finding the Full Text of an Article
Finding the full text of an article can be challenging because the library may provide access in different ways: Most of the time the library has an electronic subscription to the journal, or the article can be found in a database, or the article can be found for free online. Sometimes the library provides a journal only in hard copy (usually for older years of a journal). If those options don't work, you can ask the library to get it via interlibrary loan.
Usually the full text is just a few clicks away. Follow the steps in the handout linked below.
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Finding Full Text Articles: The Persistent MethodSometimes electronic full text of an article may be just a few clicks away. If one way doesn’t work, there are other ways to try.
If you have a DOI number, you can create a link to the article using the form below. The link goes to the publisher page for the article. It might have free full text from the library. If you don't find free full text at the publisher page, the article can almost always be found using other methods from the handout.
If your article is only available in print at the EMU Library, you can request that staff in the Circulation Department scan the article for you.
DOI
A DOI - digital object identifier - is a standard method of referring to online publications, often articles. DOIs are persistent references that will always point to a particular resource, even if the publisher's web address has changed.
Interlibrary Loan
When EMU doesn't have the article in any form, ask the library to get it for you via interlibrary loan. There is no charge to students for these articles.
ILL step by step:
a. Log in to ILLiad
b. You might need to register in the system first.
c. Use the article link in the left column
d. Fill out the form (you won't need to fill out every field, but some detail helps)
e. Submit request
f. You will receive an email when the article is ready with a link to log back into the ILL system to retrieve it.
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ILLiadCurrent EMU students and faculty can use this online form to ask the library to obtain a copy of an article for you (only when the library doesn't have the article in any form whether online, print, or microform). Usually it takes about a week--sometimes less, sometimes more.
Finding Full Text Examples
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Full Text in ProQuestHere the full text of the article is right in the ProQuest database. On the left side of the record, there is a Full text - PDF link to download the article and a Full text link to view fulltext within the record.
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Using "Get full text" in ProQuestHere you can use a button or link that says Get Full Text. The link might send you directly to the article. Sometimes it will send you to a record on the free ERIC site, where there is a link to Download full text on the right side.
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Findtext+ Example 1Use the green E FIND TEXT+ button or the EMU FindText+ link. In this example, Findtext+ takes you right to the page for the article in one of the libraries journal subscriptions.
For this publisher (Taylor and Francis) , there is a green button "view PDF". The page you are taken to can vary for different publishers, so you may have to look around for how to get to the full text or PDF. -
Findtext+ Example 2 (the tricky one!)Here Findtext+ does not take you directly to the article; instead it takes you to a page of the library's Esearch--but the article is only a couple clicks away. Here is how to find it:
1. Use the article citation at the top to find the year, volume, and issue number for the article.
2. Scan the links listed under View Online to look for a source that will include the year/volume that you need. So, in this case any of those links should work. If a link doesn't work, try one of the others.
In a few cases, it will take you only to a page for the journal (rather than to the specific article). Then you need to follow links for the year/volume and issue to get to the article in the journal. (Or sometimes there is a search box you can use to search the article title.)
