If you click on an article's title in a set of results, you may only see information about the article.
To access the full text of an article click on the button marked Access Options in the results. This button will provide you with the option to access the full text of the article, including PDF or HTML if available.
Why is full text not always available?
Sometimes, you may find articles in your search results that when you click on the title you do not find a link to the full article, but only a brief summary of the article.
This happens because different journal publishers have different agreements with the database vendors who collect and provide access to these journals (like EBSCO and ProQuest). Some of these agreements allow the databases to provide access to the full article, while some only provide access to the details of the article (but not the article itself).
Why would they only include information about the article if I cannot read it?
The bibliographies and summaries (abstracts) show you what information on a topic is available, even if it’s outside the UAGC Library. This is especially useful for research within the upper-level and graduate courses. In most cases, the library can try to locate a copy of the article for you from another library using interlibrary loan. For more information on interlibrary loan take a look at the following resources: How to Create an ILL Account and How to put in an ILL request.
To help avoid retrieving article summaries or abstracts make sure you have the Full Text box checked whenever you perform a search. This will let the database know that you only want to see results for full-text articles.
If you still have questions you can chat in real-time with a librarian here.