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Accessing Articles

Once you've found articles, accessing them is the easy part. 

  • If you searched Our Collections (the search box on the library homepage), look for links that says Available online or Full text available, like in the image below:

  • Each database company does things slightly differently, but usually, they'll use one ore more of the following words: PDF, Download, and Full text. Here are a few examples.

    Proquest is a company - we subscribe to a few different databases through them. In their databases, look for the phrase Full text, like in the image below:

    JSTOR is one database. They use the words Download PDF - see the image below.

If you see a link that says 'Available at Penfield Library Journal Collection...'

If you see a link that says Available at Penfield Library Journal Collection, 2nd Floor like in the image below:

  1. Click on the link to see which years or issues the Library has in it's physical collection. These will be listed after any database collections:

  2. In this example, Penfield Library has volume 33, Issue 210 (2000) to volume 46, issue 29 (2013) in the physical journal collection on the 2nd floor.

If you see a link that says Available at Penfield Library Periodical Storage, Lower Level like in the image below:

  1. You can place a request to have an article scanned using a tool called ILLiad. If you're not familiar with this tool, you can follow these instructions on how to request an article. A library employee will then collect this item from the basement for you, scan the article, and upload a PDF to the ILLiad site. You'll receive an email notification that it's available, and you can download it.

If you see the phrase 'Full Text Finder.'..

You will probably see the phrase Full Text Finder in your search results. This will check to see if we have the article in another database. If we do have access to the article, the link will take you to the article or the journal's homepage. If we don't have it, you can request it through interlibrary loan.

If it takes you to the homepage for the journal, like in the image below, you can either "Search within publication" (2b in the image below) or browse by date to find your article (2a in the image below). Some databases may only let you browse by date, but several should have both options.