Posts Tagged ‘articles’

How do I resolve a database or article error?

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Penrose Library has a wealth of online resources for students, faculty and staff to use in conducting research. As of May 2012, we have over 700 electronic databases and well over 1.5 million links to electronic resources such as ebooks and government documents in our online catalog!

With this many digital resources, technical problems are bound to arise. Please don’t hesitate to contact the Research Center when you encounter problems accessing a database, an online article, an ebook or any other digital resource. Research Center staff can often troubleshoot the issue with you by phone, email or web chat. If needed, they will refer the problem on for resolution. Working with the content providers, our e-resources team can usually resolve issues the same day that they are reported.

The Research Center is open seven days a week, until midnight Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. You can reach us by phone (303-871-2905), email (research-help@du.edu), chat, or text (720-515-2150). Remember, we can’t fix problems until they are reported…Please let us know if you are experiencing problems or have questions!

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How do I get to the full text if I only have the abstract?

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

There are many article abstracting databases on the Internet where they only have abstracts of articles, but the full text is not available.  We have ArticleLinker in most of our library subscription databases and some of the freely available databases (such as PubMed and Google Scholar), but that service is not available in all of the databases that are out there on the web.

For example, someone might want to see the full text of an article that was published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  A student might find the abstract of this 2009 article, “Image Analyses-Based Nondisruptive Method to Quantify Algal Growth on Concrete Surfaces” from the Journal of Environmental Engineering, but the ASCE website only links to a place where they ask for a credit card number or an ASCE membership number for the full text.

Check the catalog to see if we have access to the journal through another source. In this case, we have access to the full text of the Journal of Environmental Engineering through two library databases from 1995 through Oct. 05, 2010, so this article from 2009 is available.

(Click on the computer monitor icon to see the demonstration full screen.)  You could also use Google Scholar to find the article.  Make sure to set up Google Scholar preferences for DU or go to Google Scholar through the library, then you will see the ArticleLinker icon for many references.

You could also search through the Summon database.  If you still can’t get to the full text, you could request the article from Penrose Library Access Services.

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Can the library provide greater access to my articles?

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

If you would like to provide greater access to the articles you have written for scholarly publishers, then you can check the database below to see if the publisher will allow the library (or other organizations) to provide open access to your articles.  Research has shown strong correlations between open access and higher citation rates.  Most scholarly publishers allow their authors to post versions of articles to websites such as Peak Digital.  For example, the IEEE and the American Institute of Physics allow authors to archive the publisher’s version/PDF.  The publisher Elsevier will allow you to archive your post-print (final draft post-refereed version).

Please use the Sherpa/Romeo database of journal and publisher copyright policies.

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If you haven’t published your article yet, then you could consider publishing your article in a completely open access journal. This will give everyone in the world a chance to view your scholarly work without needing a subscription to the content.  Please let us know if you have any other questions concerning open access resources.

Joe

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How do I find journal articles?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

To search for journal articles on specific topics you may use the “Find Articles” search found on the Penrose Library homepage to search one of our popular full-text databases: Academic Search Complete.  This database contains articles from many disciplines and is a good place to begin your general search. 

You may also access more specific databases by subject (business, English literature, etc.) by clicking on the Databases link under the Find Articles search box and selecting your subject from the drop down menu.  You can then search within any of the databases recommeneded for your subject. 

If an article you want is not full text in a database, click on the Article Linker button to find out if it is available full-text online in another database.  Learn more about finding full-text articles on our Research Guide  Article Linker: Getting to Online Full Text. 

You can also search from our homepage to find out if we have online full-text of a particular journal.  Put the name of the database in the Find Books and More search box on the library’s homepage, library.du.edu.  The entry marked as [electronic resource] in your results list will show you the database(s) that contain that journal full-text and the years of coverage available.  Click on the year range to the right of the database name to access the database containing that journal.

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