Ideally, when you search in the database, you have access the PDF (or sometimes HTML view) right there in the search results. In the EBSCO databases, it helps to filter your results to only “full text” to limit what you have to dig through, but there’s good reasons to leave that off to get a broader scope of possibilities – even if that means extra steps to find the full text.
This article from the Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research is available in full text!
There's no Full Text link: What next?
- Do you see instead a link for Full Text Finder? This is a tool that tries to find the article in other databases we have (or possibly online, if there's open-access available). Click through to see if it gives you any leads.
- You can also look up the publication title in the Full Text Finder yourself. Note! Publication title, not article title. What is the name of the source the originally produced the article you want?
- Try Google searching for the article title -- sometimes they'll be available from the publisher, or you can find a pre-print.
- If all else fails, do an inter-library loan request.