Can you help me find the full text of an article?
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Yes! There are a few ways you can go about finding the full text of an article:
If you're affiliated with McGill, you have access to full text articles within journals that we have subscriptions to. Let's say you found an article via Google and want to see if McGill has the full-text version in the catalogue: you would head to https://www.mcgill.ca/library/ and copy and paste the title of the article into the search bar, then click "Search". If we have a subscription to the journal the article is published in, it will appear in the search results. Click "View PDF" to head to the full text of the article.
There are also a few different browser extensions that you can download that will help identify whether McGill has access to the full text of an article, or if the article is open access (i.e. free to read and download). These browser extensions include LibKey Nomad, UnPayWall, and EndNote Click. Give them a try!
Lastly, please don't ever pay for a full-text article! If you're affiliated with McGill, you can use our interlibrary loan (ILL) service for FREE if you're not able to find the full text of an article you're looking for. ILL allows us to ask other institutions if they have a copy of the full-text article that they can share with us. Follow these instructions and have the article scanned and emailed to you: https://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/otherloans/interlibrary