You can search the web and find your way to the public websites of many academic journal publishers. Here are some examples and there are many others:
- Elsevier's ScienceDirect
- Taylor & Francis
- John Wiley
- Oxford University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Springer
- Routledge
- DeGruyter
- Karger
- Brill
The Library does not license access to these service platforms, so the full-text articles you want are not available immediately.
However, all these services place their journal citations in Discovery GALILEO, the Search Everything finding service the Library does license. The extent of the citations is for several decades to the present.
So if you find a citation you want on one of these services, here's how to obtain a copy of the article:
- Go to the Library's homepage.
- Paste the article's title in the Discovery GALILEO search field and click Search.
- When the search result opens, scan the list for the article you want. Not often, you will see a PDF icon for full-text.
- Otherwise, take notice of the Full-Text Finder icon below the citation and click it.
- Full-Text Finder will tell you whether full-text is directly available in some other online service the Library licenses.
- It will also show a link to Obtain the Article through ILL (Interlibrary Loan).
- Click that link to place an ILL request. (For more about ILL and Full-Text Finder, watch this tutorial.)
