What does this icon mean?

We know how frustrating it can be to locate a great citation, only to find that you can't get it in fulltext. We are always looking for ways to make it easier for our users to locate fulltext articles. The UOW Library icon is linked to some software which can help you find out whether fulltext is available for the citation you have found. In many cases it will take you right to the article. Sometimes you may just see a link with text such as "Find @ UOW ", instead of an icon.

So every time I see that icon, fulltext is available?

Unfortunately, no. The graphic appears by default. It does not go through any test to see if we subscribe before it appears. You need to click on the Find @ UOW icon to see if you can access fulltext.

Where a database has its own fulltext, please use that link to fulltext even if the Find @ UOW icon is there.

Using the icon

Select a database for your search, in this example a search was done on Psycinfo on the Ovid platform. A record of interest is located.

Click on the Find @ UOW icon to check if the Library holds this article. A window like the one shown below will be displayed but the links available will vary.

For this article there is a link to the fulltext at the publisher, Oxford Journals Online

Normally a link will take you to the title and abstract of the article. You will need to locate a link to a pdf copy of the article or sometimes an html fulltext version. The example above shows a link "Fulltext" this will open the document in html. The link "PDF" will open a pdf file, which looks like the article in print format.

Different sites may call the links to fulltext by different names and you will need to find the appropriate one. Sometimes the article will open automatically.

If you click on the link called "additional resources relating to this" it takes you to a page with alternative options to try to located the article. In this case the article is also available on Proquest.

This is the same sort of page you will see if it is not possible to directly link to the article. The image below shows an instance where the software can only locate the journal but not the article. It should be possible to click on the link to the journal then click through to the article using the information such as volume issue and page numbers

For very recent articles the fulltext may not yet be loaded. This will be more likely with sites that licence other publishers' material, for example Proquest, Gale and Informit fulltext databases.

Contact the Electronic Services Librarian using the link at the bottom of this page if you find links to articles the Library does not subscribe to.

Getting back to the database

Your browser will normally have opened separate windows to show links and to display the site where the article is located. Close these windows and that should take you back to your search in the database. If you do not close the windows when finished you may find that the next lot of fulltext of articles you want next will open on these windows and may not be obvious to you if the windows are hidden behind the search window. With Ovid databases it is necessary to click to go back to the previous page or the results display to return to your search.

When there is just a link to the catalogue

This means that we have not been able to identify any subscription that you can access directly. Not all publishers have enabled this technology or we may only subscribe to the title in print.

Do a journal title search in the catalogue and see if we have any access.

If you discover that we do not subscribe to that journal for the volume and date you require, document delivery may be an option for clients who are entitled to use this service.

Sometimes there are other links to fulltext in the databases

Yes, we have set up links directly to fulltext from our abstracting and indexing databases. You can use the other links if you prefer but they are not maintained in the same way as the linking technolgy that has been explained.

Trouble shooting

The link doesn't work

If you get to the site and get some sort of error message, you may be able to access the browse or search links and locate the article that way. If you can't, try going back using the link "additional resources relating to this" and use a link to the catalogue to at least get to the right title on the site and browse from there.