Know how to obtain information about full-text availability

PubMed contains "Filter your result" links and two types of buttons that will be helpful when you are trying to obtain full-text:

When you access PubMed by going through a link on the Library's web site, the abstract view of each record will usually include "GetIt!@UNMC" button and may also include a publisher's button.

A. "GetIt!@UNMC" button.

When you click on one of these buttons a pop-up window will open.

This window will:

1. contain information about the online availability of the article through the McGoogan Library's subscriptions/licenses.
   
   • If the Library doesn't have online access a "Sorry no full text sources have been identified for this citation" message will appear.
   
   
   • If the Library does subscribe or license an electronic form of the article, a link/s to the source/s for the article will appear . When, rarely, these links do not take you to a source for full-text; use the Library's Online Journal Finder to gain access to the source for full-text.
     
     
2. contain a link to a "Library Catalog" search.
   This link will open a pop-up window containing results of a McGoogan Library catalog search for the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of the journal of interest. If the Libarary's catalog does contain a record for a the print form of the journal, you will need to open the full catalog record to determine whether the specific issue you need is available.
   


3. contain a link to a pre-populated Interlibrary Loan/Photocopy Service request form.
   
   

B. Publisher's buttons usually just provide you an opportunity to pay for an article or pay for a personal subscription (especially when you're off campus). However, publishers occasionally provide free access to an electronic article. The PubMed records corresponding to these freely available online articles usually have a "Free full text" button of some type.

C. The "Filter Your Results" "Free full Text" link (red arrow in figure below) is very helpful in finding articles made available without charge by publishers. Not all free articles will have publisher's buttons that indicate free access. However, all, or nearly all, will be listed when you click on the "Free full text" link.

After clicking on the "Free full text" link, you may find that you want to return to the complete result list. If so, just click on the "All" link (green arrow).

Clicking on the "UNMC Library Holdings" link (blue arrow) will take you to a list of most, but not all, of the items available through the McGoogan Library's subscriptions and licenses. Unfortunately, there is no way for our librarians to perfect the data that produces the "UNMC Library Holdings" list. You will be able to obtain access to some articles not listed in the "UNMC Library Holdings" list, by clicking on the "All" tab and clicking on "GetIt!@UNMC buttons" to check for availability.

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