Finding Full Text Articles from Your Easy Chair or Office Chair

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Finding Full Text Articles fromYour Easy Chair
or Office Chair

• Gail Anderson, AMLS, A.H.I.P.

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Purpose Statement

• Provide background on electronic journals
  access issues

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Goal and Objective

• GOAL to increase understanding of the Greenblatt
  Librarys online biomedical journals
• OBJECTIVE to identify online journal services
  access methods from campus home

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Today

• 4 major providers of online full text journals,
  Journals_at_Ovid, ScienceDirect, Wiley InterScience,
  Springer
• Other databases links to full text journals, such
  as PubMed and Web of Science
• Free online journal articles
• GALILEO provides full text databases
• ePublications alphabetical list of 16,000 titles
  including some online books and individual online
  subscriptions

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Then

• First Greenblatt Library internet journal was
  Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Full Text Options

• Journals_at_Ovid - over 300
• STAT!Ref approx. 60 books
• ScienceDirect - over 1300 journals
• WILEY InterScience - over 400
• SpringerLINK over 1200
• Publisher sites from online press -
• such as HighWire Press over 150
• Publisher sites numerous

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Other Full Text Options

• Free trial periods - temporary
• Free sample issues may change
• Free articles within subscription sites may
  require free registration for access
• Open Access articles may include embargo
  periods

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Viewing Printing Options

• Determined by the publisher or press or online
  provider
• HTML web page view
• PDF - like printed journal using free Adobe
  Acrobat

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Access

• Publishers choose access restrictions
• Library registers for or licenses each service or
  title
• Subscriptions required authentication
• Free sites do not

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Access Options for Subscriptions

• Authentication of legitimate users
• IP recognition
• Self-registration
• Username/password
• Combination IP/password

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Hypertext Full Text Links

• Crossref.org
• DOIs
• MCG IP authenticated sites will open to full text
• Free articles will open to full text
• Pay-for-access alternative or MCG ILLs document
  delivery

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Other Access Issues

• Browser - Netscape or Internet Explorer
• See recommendations at mcg.edu/itss/Help/browser
• NOT AOL
• Off Campus through Proxy Server
• Set browser for Cookies
• Recommend clearing browser cache after
  unsuccessful access

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Search Tips For Full-Text

• Search MEDLINE or other medical databases without
  restricting to full-text
• Check ePublications to determine online
  accessibility for specific journal(s)
• Check Gil_at_MCG for print access
• Document Delivery service can obtain non-MCG
  held article(s) for 5.00 fee

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Search Tips For Full-Text

• Journals_at_OVID is all full-text available from
  OVID, not necessarily MCG owned
• Can limit to available full-text titles
• PubMed links to publisher provided full-text
• Choose MCG button for full-text
• Science Direct Journal Browse
• Change drop-menu to subscribed titles to get
  full-text

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ePublications Search Tips

• Title default alphabetical browsing
• Search box to find specific journal(s)
• Enter keywords from title
• Subject journals listed by discipline
• Index lists journals by publisher
• OVID, Science Direct, Wiley, etc

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Additional Recommendations

• Greenblatt Library barcode on your MCG ID
• Bookmark Greenblatt Library home page
• Go to ePublications list when title is known
• For proxy and GALILEO remote password, use
  GIL_at_MCG Your Account REQUEST button