Lesson 20. Searching Full-Text Articles
First of all, answer a number of important questions to make preferences for your search:
What is the publisher of a journal?
Is UrFU subscribed to this publisher?
Has UrFU subscription to the resource a full-text access to the required journal?
Has the journal (conference) or publisher (organization) official site? Does it provide open access to the repository?
Has the author of an article profiles in scientific social networks? What full-text sources are placed in his / her profile?
Is this journal in UrFU Library printed stock?
Could you order the article copy by Interlibrary Loan?
These answers would facilitate building up retrieval algorithm. It would be better to start search from electronic resources subscribed by UrFU basing on set attributes — the publisher reflected in the databases title or stated as a resource proprietor. Be it not included into UrFU subscription, we search for the journal / publisher official site on the Internet and check availability of an open-access repository of the source. You can use the system EBSCO Discovery that allows simultaneous searching through the UrFU basic subscribed resources as well as open-access ones.
You can also use Google Scholar, a freely accessible web engine for searching scholarly information both in subscribed resources and open-access ones (universities repositories, social scientific networks, for example, ResearchGate).
EXAMPLE. Searching by keywords “information culture” for 2019 returns 667 results. The first, second and fourth results have access to full texts from Google Scholar. The third result does not have a full-text icon (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. The results of keywords search in Google Scholar
Then we check the third result by a publication title being a hyperlink. Thus we see that it is published in Emerald database. Availability of a full-text of this article depends on the university subscription (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Availability of a full text in Emerald database
IT IS IMPORTANT that the search results in «Google Scholar» allow seeing a publisher name and identifying its availability in the university subscription, which essentially facilitates searching a full-text article. Working in UrFU network or through EZproxy system will give you a greater number of links.
Figure 3. Example of database searching in “Google Scholar”
Figure 4. Starting page of EndNote Click (Formely Kopernio)
In 30% Web of Science Core Collection itself automatically provides transition to full texts in open resources through “Google Scholar” (see Figures 5, 6).
Figure 5. Article profile in Web of Science Core Collection
Figure 6. The result of transition from WoS CC to Google Scholar search
In exceptional cases you can request the article’s author by email or social networks to give access to a full text.