How do I use Find It! to locate an article that's not immediately available full-text?

Many of the databases provide access to full-text articles, but other databases only provide access to article citations. Even among those databases that offer full-text, there may be some articles that are not available full-text. When full-text is not available from the database you are currently searching, the Find It! tool can help you try to locate the article elsewhere.

Find It! is a specialized search engine that searches across all of the University Libraries' subscription databases to try to locate another source for an article or periodical. Clicking on the Find It! button will open a new window with several possible results.

• If Find It! locates a full-text version of the article in one or more other databases, the link(s) to those other databases will appear in the Find It! window. Sometimes a link will take you directly to the article in another database. Other times a link will take you to a search screen or table of contents page in another database and you will have to do a search to retrieve the full-text of the article.
• If Find It! determines that USM Libraries does not have access to the full-text of the article in any of its databases, you will see the message "No Full Text is available for this item." You will then be presented with other options for trying to find the article.

The following options are available if full-text of the article is not found in any of the databases.

• "Check our Holdings in ANNA" will search the Anna library catalog for the periodical where your article was published.
  • If the search finds the periodical, you will see a list of matching records in Anna. It is possible that USM Libraries will have some issues of the periodical but not have the specific issue where your article was published, so check the full details of the record to make sure the library has the volume you need. For more information on how to do this, refer to the FAQ "How do I find an article if I already have the citation?"
  • If USM Libraries does not have the periodical, you will see the message "no matches in any library." Close this Anna catalog window and return to the Find It! window for other options.
• "Item not found? - Search Google" will search Google for the title of the article. Clicking on this link will take you outside USM Libraries' Web site. If you are asked to pay for access to an article, the decision to do so is entirely up to you and you will be responsible for any charges incurred.
• "Request document via ILLiad" will take you to the login screen for USM Libraries Document Delivery Service. An article may be ordered and delivered to you within 1-3 days at no added cost through the document delivery service. For instructions on registering and using Document Delivery, go to our Document Delivery Services Web page.
• The "Other articles by this author? -- using Web of Science" option will not take you to the full-text of the article. Instead, it will do a search in three citation indexes (Arts & Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences) to identify other articles published by the same author.