Finding Full-Text Journal Articles

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Finding Full-Text Journal Articles

• from a Citation

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Locating an Article from a Citation

• Sometimes you may either be given a citation for
  an article or find one in your readings and want
  to locate a copy of the article
• This presentation will show you how to determine
  if the full-text of an article is available
  online through the Kettering College library and
  how to retrieve it

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Finding a full-text article

• The full-text of many (but not all) articles can
  be retrieved online from one or more of the many
  databases to which the library provides access.
• The Librarys A-Z List of Full-text Journals can
  be used to determine which databases, if any,
  provide access to full-text articles from a
  particular journal and what years/volumes of the
  journal are available online and to link to
  available articles

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Locating an Article from a Citation

• Your instructor gives you the following
  citations
• ED teaching timely or time-consuming?...
  emergency departments. American Journal of
  Nursing, 1994 Dec 94(12) 48.
• Jacobs A. (2003, January 23). Nursing's practice
  and theory must be linked. British Journal of
  Nursing, 12 (2), 78.
• You are to locate a copy of each article and read
  it.

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Start at the Library Home Page
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Click A-Z List of Full-Text Journals
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If you are off-campus a login screen will
display. Enter the appropriate login and
password.
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The A-Z List Search Screen will display
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Identify the title of the journal

• To search the A-Z list you will need to identify
  the title of the journal in which the article
  appeared.
• A citation includes the journal title, usually
  after the author and the title of the article

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Identify the Journal

• Citation 1
• ED teaching timely or time-consuming?...
  emergency departments. American Journal of
  Nursing, 1994 Dec 94(12) 48

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Identify the Journal

• Citation 2
• Jacobs A. (2003, January 23). Nursing's practice
  and theory must be linked. British Journal of
  Nursing, 12 (2), 78.

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To determine if the article is available, enter
the journal title in the search box
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Click Search
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The search results will display
Look carefully at the results. Note while
results show there is full-text access to
articles from American Journal of Nursing,
coverage begins in 1996, but the article is from
1994. You will not be able to access this
article online.
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Enter the title for the second article
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Click Search
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Articles from this journal are available in two
databases.
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Note the years covered by each database. Select a
database that includes the year the article was
published. Not all databases cover the same
years.
Both of these databases cover 2003, so either
database may be used.
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When you click the database link, you will be
connected to the record for selected journal.
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Variations in databases

• Not all databases display journal information in
  the same way
• For some you must select a year which then
  provides a secondary selection by issue or date
• For others individual issues will be linked under
  the year.

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For this database, you must first select the year
the article was published.
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Check the citation for the year
Jacobs A. (2003, January 23).
Nursing's practice and theory must be
linked. British Journal of Nursing, 12
(2), 78.

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Click the appropriate year 2003
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A list of issues/dates will display
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Refer to your citation to identify the issue

• Jacobs A. (2003, January 23).
• Nursing's practice and
• theory must be linked. British
• Journal of Nursing, 12 (2), 78.

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Locate and click the appropriate issue
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A menu of articles from that issue will display
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Browse the list of articles to locate the cited
article.
When you locate the article, click the PDF link
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The full-text article will display
To print the article, click the print icon.
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Citations without Issue Numbers

• Some citation styles do not require inclusion of
  an issue number if the journal cited uses
  continuous pagination
• A journal has continuous pagination if each
  subsequent issue begins its paging where the
  previous issue ended. ( E.g. issue 1 ends with
  page 109, issue 2 begins with page 110)

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Citations without Issue Numbers

• Some full-text databases include paging
  information as well as issue numbers.
• For these databases, select the issue that
  includes the pages identified in the citation
• For databases that do not provide paging
  information, other procedures need to be used

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Citations without Issue Numbers

• Your instructor has given you the citation below
  and you must locate a copy of the article
• Kitson, Alison. (2006) From scholarship to action
  innovation. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 55,
  543-545.

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Citations without Issue Numbers
Your search of the A-Z list shows that full-text
articles from this journal are available
online. Lets try the OhioLINK Electronic Journal
Center first.
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Citations without Issue Numbers
The Electronic Journal Center includes paging for
each issue. Simply select the issue that covers
pages 543-545
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Citations without Issue Numbers
Now lets check Academic Search Complete. First
select the year 2006.
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Citations without Issue Numbers
This database does not provide paging. To work
around this, select the first issue of the year.
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Citations without Issue Numbers
Records for articles from the first issue will
display. Note the issue date in the search box to
limit the results to that issue DT20060101.
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Citations without Issue Numbers
Delete the day and month (0101) from the date
leaving only the year, then click Search. This
will retrieve all the articles from that year.
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Citations without Issue Numbers
When the full list of articles displays, enter
the authors last name in the second search box
and click search again.
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Citations without Issue Numbers
Articles with that name will be retrieved.
Scroll the list to find your article.
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Questions or Problems?

• If you have any questions or have problems
  accessing a resources, please contact the
  library
• [phone] x6
• or
• Kathy.salgado_at_kcma.edu