Q. How can I verify online access to an article in the library catalog?

There are a couple of avenues you can take to verify institutional access beyond looking at a single article record.

1.Check All Versions of the Article Record for Access
If you are sure of the article's title, check to make sure your search results display is set to "show all." Sometimes a different article record is linked than the first one that appears when article records are "grouped."


In the case above, there is only one record, so there are no other versions of the article record in WorldCat. If too many records display, try putting your desired article "title" in quotes.

2. eJournal Record in the Catalog/ BrowZine
Try searching for the title of the journal your desired article appears in. Sometimes articles are not linked from our eJournal holdings, but eJournal access will still display on the journal title record. You can then use the article citation information to locate the correct volume/ issue in the provided databases. Select the "eJournal, eMagazine" filter to help narrow your search.


In this case, no access is listed for the eJournal record through our institutional subscriptions, and the journal is not marked as held by "Fuller Libraries." 

• You can also select "journals" from the library homepage to search Browzine for browsable issues of subscribed eJournals. 

3. Open Access
Some articles are posted by their authors in a pre-print server or other institutional repository. The library catalog does not contain links to all of the possible sources of open access articles, but more are being added all the time.

A final check would be to search the article title on the open web using popular search tools such as Google or Google scholar. I tried searching the article title in Google scholar and was directed to an uploaded PDF of the article by eaapublishing.org.
 

4. Article Interlibrary Loan

If none of the above methods grant access to your desired article, feel free to request it via article interlibrary loan. Some articles will offer an ILL button directly in the record, while others will need to be requested manually using the ILL instructions in our online users guide.



Our ILL department routinely checks Google/ Google scholar before placing requests just to ensure that open access for the article does not already exist. While we are happy to send you articles located this way, conducting this check for yourself before submitting ILL's may grant access to your desired article in less time.

See the links below for guidance on accessing linked articles, navigating broken links, and reporting mislinked articles.