University Libraries

Have a citation for an article and need the full text?

A professor or fellow student shares a citation with you, or you've read another article that includes a good citation in its bibliography.

1. Copy and Paste the title into the Library Search. Often, the full text is right there.  

2. Copy and Paste the citation into Google Scholar.  Less often, the article is free on the internet or if you have the LibKey Nomad plugin installed it will route you to where the library has access from the source's page.

3. Look up the JOURNAL TITLE in ALICE. We'll use this article as an example:

Baker, L. R., & Oswald, D. L. (2010). Shyness and online social networking services. Journal Of Social & Personal Relationships, 27(7), 873-889. doi:10.1177/0265407510375261     

• Identify the journal and search for it in Library Catalog. This article is from the Journal of Social & Personal Relationships. 
• Use the periodical search to look for this journal and see if we have a subscription

• In many cases, you'll see an Library Catalog page for both a paper copy of the journal and an online version as is the case for this journal. You'll see that the online version has [electronic resource] in the title.
  • Here's the Library Catalog page for the online version of this journal
• Once you get to the website that hosts the online journal, browse for the year and issue you need.

4.  Never pay for an article! If we do not have it, Fill out the Interlibrary Loan form and we'll get you a free copy, almost always. 

If you get stuck anywhere, please let us help you.