Finding Full Text Articles

Why aren’t there any articles???

Really—they’re there!

Our databases have both full text articles and abstracts (summaries) of articles

By selecting the full text option when you search, all of your

search results will have the entire article available

Why isn’t the whole database full text?•Abstracts help you know what other

information on a topic is available—this is especially useful for upper level and graduate courses

Available right now

Everything that’s

available

EBSCOhost •To get only full text results, check the box

next to Full Text just below Limit your results

Opening an article in EBSCOhost:

On your results pages, there will be Full Text icons at the end of each citation

Some are simply the text of the article without the formatting and can be read in the database or printed out

Click on HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text to open the article

Some are PDFs, which you can download to your computer or print and which look like the page from the journal

Saving a PDF document:•Once you open a PDF document, you can

save it to your computer and use it any time• To save it, move your cursor around until you

see the dark oblong menu bar •Click on the floppy

disk on the left of the oblong

•Give it a name that you can recognize and save it where you can easily find it

Or print your article by clicking here

EBSCOhost includes:•Academic Search Premier•Business Source Elite•CINAHL•EconLit•ERIC• Literary Reference Center Plus•MLA Directory of Periodicals•MLA International Bibliography• PsycARTICLES• PsycINFO• PsycBOOKS• PsycCRITIQUES

ProQuest•To get only full text results, check the box

next to Full text just below Search options

Opening an article in ProQuest:On your results pages, there will be Full text icons at the end of each citation

Some are simply the text of the article without the formatting and can be read in the database or printed out

Some are PDFs, which you can download to your computer or print and which look like the page from the journal

Click on Full text or Full text - PDF to open the article

ProQuest includes:• ProQuest Central• ProQuest collections•ABI/INFORM complete•Accounting & Tax•Banking Information Source•Canadian Newsstand Complete•CBCA Complete•Hoover’s Company Profiles•OxResearch• Pharmaceutical News Index

JSTOR• JSTOR has all full text articles•However, JSTOR lists articles that are not in our

library•UNcheck the box next to Include links to external

content to get the articles in our collection

Databases with nothing but full text:•Credo Reference•Hoover’s

Company Records•Mergent•NewsBank•OxResearch•Project MUSE•PubMed Central•Reference USA

•Snapshot Series•Westlaw•World Book

Academic•Films On Demand

(videos)•Ebrary (ebooks)•EBSCOhost

eBook Collection (ebooks)

Decipher our code• Our database lists show

how much full text is available in each database

All Full Text

Some Full Text

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