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What is Article Linker? Serials Solutions Article Linker™ is an "OpenURL link resolver," linking many of the electronic resources of the Health Sciences Library -- primarily linking bibliographic databases to full-text journal articles when available . When you find a citation or reference to a specific article in an online database, Article Linker can tell you the best available path to the full-text article via the library's electronic collections. In addition, the Article Linker results page supplies links to the library's Online Catalog (to locate print holdings) and to ILLiad interlibrary loan/document delivery service.
How do I use Article Linker?
This is an Article Linker button:
Clicking on this button calls up the Article Linker results page which looks like this:
The Article Linker results page contains the following:
Why isn't an Article level link always available? If there is no Article level link, it could be due to one of the following reasons:
- Step 1 : Identification of electronic full text holdings. If there is electronic full text access you will see an "Article" link (direct to full-text article), a "Journal" link (which goes to table of contents, then links to full text), and/or "Source" link (which goes to source of article but needs to be searched).
- Step 2 : Option to search for print holdings in the library's Online Catalog. A "Title" search link the Health Sciences Library Online Catalog. By clicking here you will enter the HSL online catalog in the alphabetical area of your title search.
- Step 3 : A link to place an Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery request via "ILLiad" system. Using Article Linker to place request fills the form for you!
- The Health Sciences Library doesn't have electronic access to the article. There is not enough data in the search criteria to trigger an Article Level Link.
- The provider of the journal does not support OpenURL.
Sometimes there are many options for full text and journal links. Why? The same journal is often available in more than one electronic resource. Article Linker will display the links to all access points. The library has made an effort to try and put the "best" access sources at the top of the list.
How do I get to the article if there is only a journal or database link? In cases where Article Linker can only take you to the journal's table of contents or a database home page, you will have to browse the table of contents to locate the issue and article you need; or, search the database to retrieve the full-text article.
Article Linker provides an article level link even though the full-text of the article is not available. Why? This can occur for several reasons:
- Full-text articles are withheld from the online versions of the database by the publisher or author.
- Information about the article appears in a database before the publisher has made the full text available. The article will be made available but is not yet available.
Additonal Questions If you have additonal questions about Article Linker, please call the reference desk at 914-594-4210 or use the Ask A Librarian service.
M. Ascher , Updated 10/20/06
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