Identifying and Obtaining Articles

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Identifying and Obtaining Articles
30 slides guiding you through all the tools your
programs librarian knows of to get the full-text
of documents

• AuD Program
• University of Florida

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UFs databases at http//www.library.health.ufl.e
du/resources/index.htm help you identify which
articles in which issues of which journals are on
your topic(s).
Databases of potential use to audiologists are
highlighted in red at left.
(Deaf education)
(Engineering)
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Use PubMed Single Citation Matcher to correct
bad citations found in bibliographieshttp//www
.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/citmatch.htm
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For best results, type in info given but. omit
at least one of these most problematic data
fields Date/Volume/Issue/First page.
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Summary of full-text sources
Free options Links from databases UF
Libraries catalog UF Libraries E-Journals
page Websites Google authors last name and
distinctive title words Pay options Interlibrary
loan from UF Health Science Center Library
Loansome Doc delivery from PubMed WorldCat
database to find nearest library with your issue
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Links from PubMed database
Come into PubMed through EZProxy and the UF HSC
Libraries.
When you have run your search in the PubMed
database, set the Display pull-down above your
search results to either Abstract or Citation.
Icons will show if the publisher provides access
electronically (maybe not for free), what our
library has online access to and what we have in
print. Click Online button for electronic (tho
maybe not full-text) access.
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Links from other databases
From IEEE Explore database
Click on PDF or SFX (links to PDF or HTML) for
electronic full-text.
From Linguistics Language Behavior Abstracts
database
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SFX, continued
SFX presents links to all the UF databases that
provide some form of electronic access to the
journal you seek. This electronic access may be
only to the Table of Contents or Abstracts, but
it could also be full-text. Click on any
hyperlink (GaleGroup, Wilson, etc.) for access.
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SFX, contd
Click on Text, or Full Text or PDF words/icons
Example from Gale databases
Example from Wilson database
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UF Libraries Catalog (from http//www.library.he
alth.ufl.edu/ )
Use this to determine if our library SYSTEM (not
just the Health Library as with PubMed) has a
subscription to the journal youre interested
ineither in print or online.
To search for a JOURNAL title, click on
Journals/Serials
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Library catalog for journals
In the BROWSE ORGANIZED LISTS (bottom) box, 1.
Type in journal title--in full if you know it. If
not, type the first word in title (ignore first
word if its The or A or An.) 2. Click Go or hit
Enter.
Meaning journals that our library has individual
subscriptions to
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Catalog, continued
(Online) after a title shows we have electronic
access to that journal.
Click hyperlink at LINK to get online access.
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Which issues are on the librarys shelves?
Click hyperlink at Location for list of print
issues.
If you dont notice your issue right away, read
carefully through the entire list of volumes and
issues. Some lists are not as clear as this.
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Long runs of journals
Check the volume/issue s at Holdings as well
as those at Sup. Material. Its easy to miss
the older journal volumes.
etc., etc.
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E-Journals
This page identifies journals you as UF students
can access electronically through the databases
the UF library system has licensed.
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Searching E-Journals

• Type titles first word or distinctive title
  words.
• Set the radio button appropriately (Title
  Contains Word(s), Title Begins with or
  Exact Title.
• Click Search or hit Enter.

(Very tedious looking through these long lists.)
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E-Journal Results

• Click on a hyperlink. If you have multiple
  options like for Ear, Nose Throat Journal,
  Academic Search Premier, InfoTrac Expanded
  Academic and Wilson (not shown) are easier to
  navigate than some of the other databases.
• Some results MAY be irrelevant.

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MDConsult

• Register (free).
• Log in.
• Click Journals tab.
• Type citation information in proper format Search
  Query (left sidebar)
• Click Search

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MDConsult, continued
MDConsults link to Full-Text
Alternately, you can search for a specific issue
of a journal. The example at right shows a search
for articles in the June 2005 issue of
Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
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http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/resources/index.
htm
You MAY be able to access full-text through this
database. Use EZProxy to come to library web
page. Then click on Databases, then on U and
Ulrichs.
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Blue E on results indicates electronic version
exists. Click on hyperlinked journal title to try
to access.
1. Type in distinctive words in title. Set
pull-down to Title (Keyword) OR 2. Type in
exact title. Set pull-down at Title (Exact)
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Click the hyperlink at URL to see if you can get
full-text. (No guarantee.)
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Websites providing some free full-text

• EZProxy not needed to access (unlike all other
  tools mentioned)
• Listed in order of decreasing probability of
  finding medical journals.

http//www.freemedicaljournals.com/ http//www.bio
medcentral.com/ http//www.bioone.org/perlserv/?re
questindex-html http//highwire.stanford.edu/
(multidisciplinary) http//www.doaj.org/
(multidisciplinary) http//www.jstor.org/ (older
journals, not much in medicine)
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Google search
Type in author last name and distinctive words in
title (phrases in parentheses)
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For-fee article delivery options
5 per item, whether a book or a journal article.
Time from request to delivery depends on the
providing librarys staffing and technology. It
generally ranges from 24 working hours
(electronic only) to 10 business days.
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Fill out the appropriate form (for book or
journal article)
Click Submit before you exit. If you dont, your
request wont register/be filled.
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Loansome DocPubMeds ordering system
With Loansome Doc you can order copies of
articles directly from your PubMed searches
without filling out the Interlibrary Loan form
for each article. On the result set, click in the
desired checkbox, then set the Send to pull-down
to Order.
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To use Loansome Doc service, youll need to
register first with UF Health Science Center
Library and then with the National Library of
Medicine
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Locate a library near you
Go to the Distance Learning Portal
http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/distance/index.h
tm Under Student Services, click on Find a
Library.
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Another option is WorldCat database. It gives a
list of libraries holding your desired
journalsometimes telling you which issues a
library holds.
http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/resources/index.
htm
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1. Go to the Advanced page. 2. Type in JOURNAL
(not article) title. 3. Click checkbox at Serial
Publications. 4. Click Search.
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Note multiple entries with exactly the same title
(1, 5 and 7 in sample at left.) Check all for a
complete list.To check libraries with this
title, click on Libraries Worldwide hyperlink.
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List starts with UF, followed alphabetically by
other libraries in state, followed alphabetically
by other states (with libraries within a state
listed alphabetically within the states block.)
Click here for COMPLETE list.
Available volumes sometimes listed here.
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Most documents ARE available (at a price) if you
allow enough time for locating and delivery of
documents.

• Questions? Contact your AuD liaison librarian
• Nancy Schaefer
• NancyS_at_library.health.ufl.edu
• Ph [phone] Fax [phone]