Obtain the full text of an article (2024)

FAQs

How do I find the full-text of an article? ›

First try searching for the article title. If that retrieves nothing or even too many results, try searching the article title and an author. When you find it, you will see an option to view full text ("PDF" or "HTML") or else the option to "check for full-text."

You can search across many repositories using search engines such as Google, Google Scholar or specialist Open Access tools such as CORE. You can also search a university's repository directly if you are interested in the research of a particular author or a research department.

Full-text refers to the entire text of an article, instead of an abstract or short summary.

If you have searched PubMed (or accessed PubMed through a web link) and located a citation of interest, check for full-text icons in the upper right corner of the display above the citation. Some full text articles may be free, for example those archived in the PubMed Central^® (PMC) database.

Go to Google Scholar, enter the article title, and click Search: Note: For best results, put quote marks around the title. If available, your article should appear as one of the first few results: If you click an article's title, you may be taken to a publisher's site that will ask you to pay for full text.

Go to Google Scholar and select the menu in the upper left corner, then click Advanced Search. Enter the article title in the "exact phrase" box.

Sci-Hub is an online search engine with millions of scholarly articles available free for download. Its activity, however, is illegal, because it infringes the copyright of the publishers.

While on an individual article's page, look for the UW Check for Full Text icon, Full text at publisher, Full Text Links, and/or Google Scholar icon. If these methods do not work, continue to step two. First check the Libraries Search for access to the journal. Then search the journal for the article's title.

PubMed does not search full-text search. Include PubMed Central and re-run all your searches. Or use a search engine with full-text capabilities such as PapersHive.

What is a full-text citation? ›

The citation usually includes the author's last name and date of publication. It might also include the page number that the information was found on. . The author's name and date can be listed in the text of the sentence or in parenthesis after the information given.

If you see an article marked as “Full Access” in Wiley Online Library, that means that you are receiving access through a current subscription to that publication. You have full access rights to the article, but other users may not. Open Access refers to the license under which the article is published.

For those available in full text, beneath each article in your results list you will find a Full text link. Where the journal has been fully digitised you will see a Full text - PDF link. ProQuest databases also index some open access journals.

There is no subscription for the PubMed database. PubMed is freely accessible, but it is a literature citation database rather than a full-text provider. It contains citation information (title, authors, journal, and publication date) and abstracts of articles published in biomedical and scientific journals.

Full access begins with your institution's current total Annual Access Fees (AAF) plus a modest adjustment of 2%-5% that continues to be applied annually until you reach the full fee. (Please note: A minimum starting fee that is 20% of the full fee for the collection applies.)