"Find It" Frequently Asked Questions
- What does Find It do?
- How do I use Find It?
- Which databases have Find It links in them?
- Why isn't there a full-text link for my article?
- Why are there multiple links for full text?
- When I click on the link to full text, the article isn't there or I get an error message. What happened?
- Sometimes when I click on a full-text link, I end up on the journal's home page or the table of contents. Why didn't I link right to the article?
Find It provides links from a citation in a database to the full text of that article, where available, and to other helpful resources and services. It's a quick way to find out whether the Libraries have the online full text of an article.
How do I use Find It?Find It buttons appear in many of the Libraries' databases. When you do a search in a database, the Find It button will appear in the records you find. Click on the button 
to get a menu with links to full text and other resources.
Find It is appearing in more and more of our databases.
Why isn't there a full-text link for my article?When the full-text button is absent it indicates that the Libraries do not subscribe to an electronic full-text version or that Find It can't link to the full text yet. Check the link to the catalog to see if the Libraries receive the journal in print form or if a link to full text is available there.
Why are there multiple links for full text?Sometimes, the Libraries get full text for a journal from several databases, so we link to all of them. That way, if one of the databases happens to be down, you can access the full text from another.
When I click on the link to full text, the article isn't there or I get an error message. What happened?A full-text link might not work because:
- If it's a recently published article, the full-text may not be online yet, even though the citation is in the database you searched.
- There was a typo or error in the citation. Find It uses the citation information to link to the article. If there's incorrect information in the citation, Find It won't be able to link properly to the full text. If this is the case, Find It may instead link you to the journal publisher's web site and you can search for the article there.
Find It will get you as close as possible to the article you want. Sometimes, the e-journal won't let us link to a specific article, so Find It drops you off at the table of contents or the home page of the journal. You can then navigate the journal's page to get to the article you want.
