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Tips for Locating Full Text Articles

If you only have a citation of an article, try one of the options below to locate the full-text of the article. 

        1. Click the "Find It!" link, near a citation in an online database, if you're in the middle of
            searching the databases.

Example: Getting the Full Text in EBSCO Databases

  1. Go to the Libraries homepage, search for an article title in our Library catalog, HPU Discovery. https://www.hpu.edu/libraries/index.html
     
  2. Go to the Libraries homepage, click on Periodicals and type a title of journal or title of article into the search box.

Example:
Journal Title: Food Microbiology    21 (2004), pp. 535–541

Article Title: Bacteriological quality and safety of raw milk in Malaysia
(Note: you would also need to input at least one more information on the article such as author(s), Journal/publication title, ISSN, etc.)
 

  1. Go to the Libraries homepage, click on Databases and then click on the letter G for "Google Scholar at HPU".  From there, enter a title of article, author(s) or DOI name into the search box.

Example:

Article title: Bacteriological quality and safety of raw milk in Malaysia

Author(s): Fook Yee Chye, Aminah Abdullah, Mohd Khan Ayob

DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2003.11.007
 

  1. Go back to the A-Z Databases, click on the letter and scroll all the way down, and then click on Crossref Metadata Search. From there, enter or paste a DOI name/ a title of an article into the text box provided.

Example:

Article title: Bacteriological quality and safety of raw milk in Malaysia

DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2003.11.007

 

If any of the options above don't work, then request articles via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Services for the HPU Libraries (Use the Journal Article Online Request Form)

 

Additional Resources

Finding Peer-reviewed Articles

Finding Scholarly Sources

Journal Article Formats

Overall Search Process

Here is a quick summary of the search process.

1. Once your topic is decided, select the appropriate databases for your subject.

2. Do a trial search, using a few of the specific key terms for your topic.

3. Review the full record of the first ten or more articles.

4. Focus only on the subject terms in the results:
-Did you select a keyword that is their subject heading?
-Is there an alternate subject term to use?
-Are there some terms that will help you narrow your retrieval?

5. Revise your search using the subject terms found.

6. Narrow further, if necessary, by adding more terms or other limiters available.

7. Check if you need to adjust the time coverage for your topic.

Reminder: the titles of articles do not always indicate the content of the articles (their subject focus), but if you have done a subject search then you know the articles will cover your topic.
 

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