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How to Find Full text Articles in Electronic Journals

Last Updated November 2007

You may access electronic journals from Mirlyn or by entering the title in the box labeled "Search" at the top of all Library web pages and clicking on the result under electronic journals. . Both of these resources similarly list all routes of access to the electronic version of the journal.

In databases such as UM-MEDSEARCH and PubMed, you may use the button to reach electronic articles directly. If MGet It does not retrieve the individual article you need, check the Mirlyn Library Catalog for campus availability. Delivery Service options (Interlibrary Loan, photocopies) are also available through the MGetIt window.

Accessing from the Mirlyn Library Catalog:

The following Mirlyn record shows that there are two ways to access JAMA electronically:

1) from publisher's website

2) via a Full text Vendor

Additionally, some journals have access to online full text

3) via UM-MEDSEARCH

1) via the Publisher's website

This indicates that UM has full text access to JAMA articles through the publisher.

If the article you are looking for has a URL to the publisher, click on the appropriate volume, issue and then the page of the article you are looking for when you connect to the publisher's website or use the Browse function if available.
Some journals require passwords; these are available to UM affiliates. For the journal JAMA, clicking on the link http://pk.lib.umich.edu/ACC6079.html will take you to an intermediate page providing the user name and password and a link to the journal.
Most publisher websites provide full text of articles in PDF format using Adobe Acrobat which will give you print as it appears in the print journal.

from publisher's website via a Full text Vendor via UM-MEDSEARCH

2) via a Full text Vendor

This indicates that UM has full text access to JAMA articles through the full text vendor ProQuest Research Library:

The university subscribes to several vendors that provide full text articles to many journals in PDF format. In our example, ProQuest Research Library is such a vendor that provides access to JAMA. For these providers, click on the hyperlink of the volume and issue for the article you are looking for.

Other Full text vendors:

ScienceDirect
InfoTrac
Lexis-Nexis
MDConsult

From publisher's website via a Full text Vendor via UM-MEDSEARCH

3) via UM-MEDSEARCH

Electronic access via UM-MEDSEARCH

This indicates that UM has full text access to the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics through UM-MEDSEARCH:

UM-MEDSEARCH provides full text of articles in selected journals. You can enter as a guest or by authenticating. Select the last database, Journals@Ovid Full Text.