Here, we will show you how you can actually use
PubMed and later retrieve full text articles from
Science Direct; one of IMU's subscribed databases.
Science Direct is a database, published by Elsevier, one of the world's leading publishers. Below, together with diagrams and explanations, you will get a better idea on how to retrieve an article:
Image 1: Example of article from PubMed.
As you can see above, there is no free full text button in retrieving the article from
PubMed, but through the explanations below, you can actually retrieve details of the article and its journal.
1: Article title.
2: Journal title and its publication which includes year published, volume and issue no.
3: You can identify the journal publisher through its logo (sometimes not applicable through
PubMed).
4: Click journal to view additional details of the journal.
5: Click NLM Catalog to proceed viewing step 4.
Image 2: Additional details of the journal.
6: Publisher of the journal, which in this case; Elsevier.
7: The full journal title.
Image 3: Library portal.
After you have identified publisher of the journal, the next step is to identify the database in which the article is retrievable. Here is example of publishers and their databases:
Next is to retrieve the article through the publisher's database in
Library portal. Login into the database through
Library portal is crucial as missing this step will eventually lead you not being able to retrieve the article.
10: Bring cursor to e-Journals and select the database;
Science Direct
Image 4: EzProxy ID and Password.
Each of IMU student and staff has been designated with individual EzProxy ID and password. These are actually the same as IMU PC login ID and password (how you login into IMU PC in IMU). If you have difficulties login into your EzProxy account, please contact IMU
Helpdesk
11: Enter IMU EzProxy ID and pasword.
12: Click Login button.
Image 5: Science Direct database
In order to fully utilize
Science Direct database, it is advisable to register your own individual account. You will be able to keep record of your searches after login into your account.
14: Type the full journal title in the journal search box. The full journal title is available from
PubMed itself (refer to step no. 7)
15: Insert publication details; volume, issue and page number (refer to step no. 2)
16: Click Search button.
Image 6: Retrieving article
The next page will direct you to the article. You can also add the article reference into blibliography tools such as
RefWorks (which IMU subscribed) and Mendeley.
17: To view
article online, click article title.
18: To
download article, click PDF icon.
Retrieving articles from databases is actually easy. The trick is:
"identify the publisher and which database to access"
or remember this:
"you wanted information regarding a BMW car, but instead you went into Mercedes website"
Of course for the above, you will not find what you are looking for since you are browsing into the wrong website, which in retrieving articles, you are browsing into the wrong database. Only accessing the correct database will lead you to the desire article.
Do email IMU
Reference Librarian if you face any difficulties obtaining any articles.
Good luck!
