Off The Shelf

Recently we turned off the default full-text limiter in our PsycINFO database.  But don’t worry – you can still find full-text articles in PsycINFO!  Here’s the scoop…

The PsycINFO database is an index of millions of article abstracts and citations.  It actually does not contain any full-text articles of its own.  Any full-text articles you find when searching in PsycINFO are pulled from cross-over with the other EBSCO database (PsycARTICLES, SocINDEX, etc). We used to have the full-text limit turned on as a default when you opened PsycINFO, but we recently turned it off to allow for an expanded search because we weren’t fully utilizing the database and all the articles you could find with it. 

While you will still see full-text articles (HTML and PDF full-text links) in your PsycINFO articles results, you will also see many more articles that say “Check Article Linker.”  Click “Check Article Linker” and the database will automatically run a search across all the other library databases to see if we have that article indexed full-text elsewhere (many we do!!).  You will then get a pop-up window with a link directly to that full-text article in another database (if it is available). 

 

  

 

If the article is not available you will see a “Sorry” message and a link that will take you to our Interlibrary Loan Request Form.  You can then submit an Interlibrary Loan request for the article and we will request it for you from another library.  Articles will be emailed to you in 3-5 business days.

If you have any questions regarding PsycINFO or the Check Article Linker Link, please feel free to call or email us in the library.

~Jennie