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Don't see your article in that database? Help might be 1 click away!
So you are searching in an article database, and you find the abstract for an article you want, but the full article is nowhere to be found? Don't get frustrated! If the OSU Libraries have the article anywhere, you can frequently find it with just a couple of clicks.
Here's a sample set of search results from Academic Search Premier. I'm using this as an example, but the basic set of tips here will work in all kinds of article databases, not just EBSCOhost databases.
The third result on that list (marked with a green arrow in the image above) has the full-text available. For any article with a link that says Full Text, or PDF Full Text, or just PDF, or HTML Full Text (or similar) - you're done.
The other two results, though (marked with pink arrows) don't have that full-text link. For these articles, you want to click the link marked with the little green circle - 360 Link to Full Text. This link lets you search for the article in the library's other databases and online subscriptions.
Here's what you will see if you click on the 360 Link to Full Text button for the first article in the example search above:
You are now looking at the page for that article in a different database. The pink arrow is pointing at the full-text link (just labeled PDF in this database).
After you click the 360 Link to Full Text link, the next screen will not always look the same, depending on where it finds your article. For example, here's another example.
This article is in the ScienceDirect database, and the full text link is in a tab at the top of the article page.
Unfortunately, the button's not magic, and it can only find articles that the library has access to. If we do not have a digital subscription to the source you're looking for, you'll see a page that looks like this. At this point, you can click the link provided to seach the OSU Library Catalog to see if we have a print (hard copy) subscription:
If we do not have the article you want, we can get it for you from another library. We will always do everything we can to get OSU students, staff and faculty anything they need to be successful in their classes and research at OSU.
