Answered By: Bob Glass
Last Updated: Nov 30, 2025     Views: 3

You can search Google or Google Scholar or PubMed, the catalog of the National Library of Medicine (NLS)), and find journal article citations. But there's no Full Finder button to get the full-text directly.

It's very likely you can have access through the Library. Here's how you determine that.


Here's how to find your article using Discovery GALILEO, or else, place an ILL request for the article you want.

  • Copy the article's title from where you found it.
  • 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. It should be very close to the top.
  • Click on the Access Options button to go directly to the full-text, when it's available.
  • Otherwise, click on the Full-Text Finder link. 
  • Full-Text Finder will tell you whether full-text is directly available in some other online service the Library licenses.
  • Or 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.)
  • If this doesn't work, write Ask a Librarian for us to help you.

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