How do I get an article I already know about?
There are several ways to do this, and it can require a little perserverence. Say you have a reference from a bibliography that looks like this:
This translates to an article by K.J. Butcher and J. Hurst, published in
Tetrahedron Letters in 2009, volume 50, issue 21, pages 2497-2500.
Reference style varies by discipline and publication, but this is a typical style found in chemistry journals. Note that the title of the article is not given, and that journal titles are almost always abbreviated.
1. via Find a Journal
- Best method for a recent article you expect to find online.
- Go to the Find an Article from a Citation page.
- Enter as much of the citation information as you know into the boxes provided. Unabbreviated journal title, volume, and year are important; author and article title information are less so.
- Click on the
button.
- If electronic full text is available, you'll see a link to get it. If it's not available, click the link to check for print holdings in the Library Catalog.
- This is the best starting point for older articles that may or may not be online.
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Enter the full (unabbreviated) journal title in the search box and click Go.
- Find the record for the title that matches, if there's more than one.
- Click the
button to check for electronic full text availability. If full text is not available for your article, check the print holdings in the catalog record to see if the volume you need is on the shelf in one of the Libraries.
- Remember that there is no article-level information in the Catalog, just journal-level records.
3. via SciFinder
- Locate the record for the article using the Explore References/Journal method. Use the full name of the journal, not abbreviations (the box cuts off "letters" in this example). Enter enough information in the form to focus the search.
- On the article record, click the "Full Text" link. From the ChemPort site, click the "UT Austin Electronic Access" link to check for full text availability.
- Click the link to go to the article. If it's not available online, check the Catalog for print holdings of that journal.
