Finding Full Text in ScienceDirect

Several questions have come up regarding results retrieved in Elsevier ScienceDirect database.  While it appears we have access to every article retrieved in a search of this database, this is not the case.  Here's a little information to help you distinguish whether or not an item is available in full text in Elsevier ScienceDirect.

In the results displayed below, you'll notice three articles are listed and all show the traditional red Adobe PDF icon just below the article, so it appears we have access to all three in full text.  However, to the right there are three arrows pointing to three different colored icons.  Each icon color represents whether or not we have access to the article.

• White means we only have access to the abstract; we do not have access to this article in full text.  
• Green means we have access to this article through our subscription to ScienceDirect.
• Orange means we have access to this article through Elsevier Open Access publishing.

For more information on this, please visit Elsevier's Help Page and search for "determining your access."

Access to New York Times & Wall Street Journal

Did you know you have access to articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal through the library?  

From the library home page, click on eJournals by Title in the left menu bar.  In the Full Text Finder search box, type the title of the paper you are interested in and click Search (you can search any newspaper or journal here).  Find the title in the results list and click on the plus sign next to the link to open a list of databases providing Full Text Access.  You should see something like this:
 
New York Times

• Academic OneFile 01/01/1985 - present
• Business Insights: Essentials 01/01/1985 - present
• Expanded Academic ASAP 01/01/1985 - present
• General OneFile 01/01/1985 - present
• InfoTrac Newsstand 01/01/1985 - present
• Opposing Viewpoints In Context 01/01/1985 - present
• Popular Magazines 01/01/1985 - present
• ProQuest Newsstand National Newspapers Premier 06/01/1980 - present 

Wall Street Journal (eastern edition)

• ABI/INFORM Complete 01/02/1984 - present
• ProQuest Health Management 01/02/1984 - present
• ProQuest Newsstand National Newspapers Premier 01/02/1984 - present

Of the databases listed, check coverage dates for a range that says "present" (in this case all of them do, but this is not always the case).  Click on the database option that provides the coverage range you need.  Each interface is a little different (Gale vs. ProQuest vs. EBSCO), but each should offer you the option to pick the date of the paper you are interested in and read the articles of the day.

Note:  Some databases provide full text coverage up to and including the current day while others provide full text coverage up to and including the previous day.  Occasionally some articles may not be included in the database even though they appeared in the hard copy paper.  Each of these situations is due to licensing between the database vendor and the publisher; Douglas Library has no control over content coverage.


 

How to Use Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a great tool for searching across multiple Douglas Library resources for full text materials. Think of this as one of our many databases, and using it will be a piece of cake!

Remember: To use Google Scholar to access Douglas Library materials, you must navigate to Google Scholar from our Databases page and log in using your CCC username and password.

Steps to using Google Scholar:

1. From the Douglas Library homepage, click on the Databases link.
2. Locate Google Scholar in the Databases A-Z list.
3. Enter your username and password at the EZproxy login page. (You may not see this if you have already logged in to use other library databases.)
4. Once you log in you will arrive at the Google Scholar search page.
5. From here, you can search using the basic interface or you can click on Advanced Scholar Search to further limit your results.
6. Once you submit your search terms, you will retrieve a results list.
7. Within this list, materials marked "Full-text @ Clinton CC" in the right side margin of the page are available to you.

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