Pearson Pipeline

You found the perfect citation for your paper in one of the library’s databases but it’s not full-text! Now what? No worries. There are a number of steps you can take to easily access the full-text of most citations you find in library databases. This is the first part of a series that will guide you through those steps. If you are searching the EBSCOhost, ProQuest, or WilsonWeb databases, you probably noticed a link at the end of each citation that looks like this:

This is the library’s open URL link resolver and it tries to link you to  another database that happens to carry the article.  Pretty cool. When it’s successful, it will lead you to  a citation or to the actual electronic journal with the full-text. Most of the time this works flawlessly.  If the full-text is unavailable, you will see a page that says: “Sorry, no holdings were found for this journal. Please see additional options below for finding this journal.” More on this in a future blog!

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