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Locating Articles from Google Scholar References

All too often Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com, yields neither full text articles nor free articles, but instead a reference, information enough to find the article, plus a link letting you order that source for a fee or a message saying that access is for "subscriberes only." Fortunately, you can obtain many articles listed by Google Scholar locally and/or for free.

1. Google Scholar commonly takes you to the web page of a publisher, professional society, Ingenta, or PubMed. None of these are full text, and some of these charge for articles.
2. Usually there is a reference and an abstract or summary. A reference is the information that lets you track down an article.
3. Finding all the parts of a reference can be tricky. Usually the title of the article is prominent as are the authors' names. The other information, the journal title, volume, pages, and date can be harder to find. Often the journal title is abbreviated. Please ask a librarian for help in obtaining the full title. Also please watch the date of the article. Google Scholar indexes some articles that are nearly twenty years old.
   
   Here is an example of a reference found through Google Scholar. Note: this is part of a bigger web page.
   
   
   
   Development analysis of teosinte glume architecture1... is the title.
   Dorweiler and Doebely are the authors.
   American Journal of Botany is the journal title.
   84 is the volume.
   1997 is the date.
   1313 is the starting page (The last page is not given).
4. Once you have the full name of the journal, you can check to see if the library has it by running a Journal Title search on GIL https://gil.colstate.edu Go to Exact Search within GIL and choose the circle marked Journal Title. Type in the title of the journal and search (Please see screenshot below).
   
5. Look carefully at the records in GIL. Our catalog may list the journal as in paper, bound, or available through a database called JSTOR.
6. If we do not have the journal in the library, you can try to see if it is full text in one of our GALILEO databases http://galileo.usg.edu or by going to http://jake.openly.com/ and searching on the title. This will let you know whether EBSCO or ProQuest databases offer full text of the journal volume that includes your article.
7. If the journal is neither in the library nor available full text through a library database, interlibrary loan is your next option. Just fill out an interlibrary loan request. Interlibrary loan is free to faculty and staff and to most students if the articles are available in the University System of Georgia which is extensive. If you do not wish to pay for interlibrary loan, simply state it on the form. Also, interlibrary loan takes from seven to ten days. Please start your research early.

EHK -- March 2005