Two Minute Tutorials (or less)
Accessing Articles
While you do your research you will find: 1) Lots of databases to search 2) References to other articles you would like to read Often, there is either no link to the article at all, or when there is a link, it leads you to a page where you are directed to purchase the article. It may be possible that you have free access to this article, and you can find this out yourselves by following a few simple steps. This tutorial will show you how to do it.
Here is an article that you find in Google Scholar. Always click on the article, since it may be available for free without any additional work.
You click on the article, but when you click to get it, it asks for quite a bit of money. If you would rather not pay, you must look for the title of the journal in the Electronic Journals List.
Name of article
Name of journal
Click Here
Search the title of the Journal not the title of the article
And you may find that we have access to the journal in one of the databases
Search for your article, or browse for the correct issue, and you can get it
While you’re in the database, you can look for other articles too. If there is one good article, there may be more! Finally, don’t forget that there may be free versions available on the web, too!
Even if you find out we don’t have access to the article, it may not be so bad. Look back at Google Scholar, and look if there is anything under Cited by
This will show you where the article you are interested in was cited by other, more recent articles! This is one important way how research is done. By finding articles, their citations, finding those articles, their citations ‌.
If you still can’t find the article, please
since we may be able to get it for you
Two Minute Tutorials (or less)
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