Finding the full text of an article depends on what information you currently have:
A complete citation, including the journal title or ISSN, the volume/issue/number, page numbers and publication date, is needed to find the full text of the article
Finding the full text of an article depends on what information you currently have:
A complete citation, including the journal title or ISSN, the volume/issue/number, page numbers and publication date, is needed to find the full text of the article. Use the Citation Linker and enter all of your citation information. You will hopefully get a link to the article online, or at least a link to the journal that contains the article (drill down using the articles volume, issue and page number to get to the specific article). When the article is not available online (because we do not subscribe to the journal online or your article is outside the range of dates in our subscription), look for the link to search Addison to see if we have a print copy. Finally, if neither online nor print access is available, use the link to request the article from interlibrary loan.
When you have an incomplete citation, such as just an article title, and therefore do not have sufficient information to find the full text, here are some strategies to use to find a more complete citation.
Many resources will not allow searching by abbreviated journal title. Common abbreviated titles, such as JAMA for the Journal of the American Medical Association, have been added to Addison; most abbreviated titles required by citation style guides, such as J. Amer. Chem. Soc., are not searchable in Addison or databases. You will need to find the full title to look up these citations.
All That JAS is a source for looking up journal title abbreviations. Major sources listed there include the Gale Group Databases Title List, the ISI Master Journal List, and many discipline-specific journal title lists.
Books that list journal titles are available at the reference desks. Sources include Periodical title abbreviations, Acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary, and Chemical Abstracts Service source index. You can uses these books yourself or ask a librarian to lookup a short list of abbreviations for you.
Millions of articles are published in newspapers, magazines and journals every year. The Virginia Tech Libraries purchase access to databases to help find articles on your research topics. Some articles will be available online, while others only available in print. You may need to use Interlibrary Loan to obtain some articles.
You will need to choose from among over 600 databases the Virginia Tech Libraries provides to search for articles on your research topic. Here are a few strategies for choosing a database.
Sometimes you want to search for an article within a particular journal, magazine or new