Finding Full Text

Search Tip # 10: Web Links and Abstracts

Links to journal articles (sometimes full text) or PubMed records are provided where available. ICL includes abstracts where available, with the permission of the journal publishers.

In a perfect world, all publications would be free to all people. However, publishing is a business and although a number of journals are provided on an Open Access basis, many require subscriptions.

In ICL we provide links to free full text whenever possible. Several journals indexed in ICL are included in PubMed Central, a permanent repository of Open Access journals. For those journals we make links to PubMed Central.

For journals requiring subscriptions, we usually use DOIs, or Digital Object Identifiers. These are unique numbers assigned to individual journal articles, such as this one, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.clch.2009.03.005 which links to the publishers of an article from the March 2009 issue of Clinical Chiropractic.

Some journals are available by subscription through more than one publisher. In the case of JMPT, for example, we provide PubMed links to PubMed’s Links>Linkout feature. See this example from the June 2009 issue of JMPT. This link, located at the end of the abstract, provides the opportunity to select from various publishers.

Our Open Access Library provides links to a wide variety of materials, including articles, books, journals and journal repositories.

Some journals are not available online, and you may have to contact a library and use a document delivery service. See CLC Member Libraries and follow the links to their services.

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