Transcript LIBRARY HOW TO ACCESS FULL

LIBRARY INFORMATION
HOW TO ACCESS FULL-TEXT
ARTICLES
Professor Paul Tremblay, 718 246-6382 or [email protected]
THIS PRESENTATION COVERS THE
PROCEDURES INVOLVED INTO
ACCESSING THE FULL ARTICLE
OF CITATIONS RETRIEVED ON
DATABASES SUCH AS PROQUEST,
EBSCO, INFOTRAC, CSA, ERIC OR
PSYCINFO
In a nutshell: once you have found a
citation in a database, you will have 4
options to obtain the full-text of the
article.
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Option 1: the article is available fulltext right from the database you are
searching from. Just click on the
“Full-Text HTML” or “PDF” and you
are all set. That’s it. No Option 2 or
3. You may save the article or email
it to yourself.
That was the very easy
part… But…
 What if the full-text is not
available from the
database you are
searching?
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Option 2: After you perform a search in most databases
(including ProQuest, Ebsco, InfoTRAC, ERIC, CSA, etc)
you will be provided with a list of citations (title of the
article, all the way down to the page number); oftentimes
you will have no direct access to the full-text. Indeed you
have indirect access. Each citation is accompanied by this
symbol
By clicking on “Article Linker”, you should access a
software (Serials Solution) which will determine which, if
any, database(s) carry the article in question. If found,
Serials Solution opens a new window with either the article
itself (in HTML or PDF) or a direct link to it.
You will encounter different levels of
difficulties and hurdles, depending on
the depository database
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ProQuest is usually the
easiest. Ebsco will make
you click a few times. Do
not give up. Call us if you
have a problem.
Print, email, save…
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Most databases (CSA, ProQuest,
Ebsco, InfoTrac…) provide you with
the options to preserve, in one way
or another, the citation and/or the
full-text of the article. The companies
have different interfaces and
terminologies, but they are usually
intuitive enough for you to figure
out. Any problems, contact me.
Option 3: There is a possibility that the article you wish to
obtain is not available full-text online but only in print
somewhere in a LIU campus library; in which case, after
you clicked on “Article Linker”, this window should open
with this message
Click on “Journal” to access our
library online catalog.
Once in our catalog, the name and
ISSN of the journal will be listed
(usually #3). Click on the ISSN.
Here the catalog informs you that the journal
is available in print at our Post campus. You
may go to the campus or you may perform
an ILL request (we will discuss this in the
next section)
Option 4: You decided to ILL the document from Brooklyn
or Post.
Or… should all of the above options fail… That is, we do
NOT own the article online or in print. The message should
read like this:
You have to obtain the journal article from
our Interlibrary Loan Dept. Go to the
Brooklyn Library homepage
On the left
hand side,
click on
Interlibrary
Loan
Welcome to the ILL page
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For a faster service, set up an
account on ILLiad
Please note: ILLiad deals with both
books and journal articles. However
we strongly recommend Westchester
students, staff and faculty to use
ILLiad for journal articles exclusively.
In a few slide, we will explain how to
request books.
Click on the ILLiad icon in the
middle of the page; you should
access this page:
In order to create an account, click
on “First Time Users”
Read the text of the next page,
please, then click on “First Time
Users Click Here” icon located
on the lower left corner of the
page.
First Time Users Click Here
Set up your account. BTW, it’s free!
And it will be the last time you have to
input your personal information within
ILLiad.
The next time you log on to ILLiad, just type
in your Username/Password and there you
go. The next page should look like this:
To request a periodical article, click
on “Request a Photocopy”
Fill in the blanks… Well, you know the
procedures… The title of the journal, the title
of the article, issue number, and so on…
Then “Submit Request”
Done! Now what will happen?
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In a nutshell we’ll obtain the article
for you, whether from another LIU
campus or from another library
system. Just log on ILLiad from time
to time and, on the Main Menu of
your account, click on
View/Download Electronically
Received Articles.
You should view a page similar to
this one:
Click on the Transaction Number,
et voila…
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Once the PDF text appears, you may
save it, print it…
You’re all set
The document should be available for
30 days only, so, to repeat myself,
open your ILLiad account once or
twice a week.
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That was for periodical
articles…
For books, please adhere to
the following procedures
You will also have to obtain the book from
our Interlibrary Loan Dept. Go to the
Brooklyn Library homepage, click on
“Westchester”, then click on “Book Request”.
WARNING!
Do NOT click on the
“Inter Library Loan”
icon!!
On the “Book Request” page for
Westchester, do not forget to input your
library barcode (located on the back of your
LIU ID card); provide us with as much
information as you possibly can. Note: We
will attempt to obtain the book for you, we
already own this book or not.
What happens next?
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Once we obtained the material
for you, we will call you to notify
you that the book is on its way
to the Westchester Campus. You
will pick it up at the Reception
Desk. Should you encounter any
problem, please contact me at
718 246-6382 or
[email protected]