If you have a citation and you need the full-text of the article
To find out if we have electronic access to a journal, check the ISU Library's
E-journals/E-newspapers database of online journals.
Different databases will do this differently. Some take you directly to the article; some to the journal. One only opens the correct database and you have to search for the article you want.
1. Search for your topic, as usual. Enter your term(s) and click Search.
SEARCH RESULTS
2. You can obtain more information about an article immediately by clicking on its PREVIEW link, which will give you access to the article abstract and an actual outline of the article.
It is at this point in your search, where you will have to look very carefully at the color of the little page icon next to the item number. You will notice either a WHITE or a GREEN icon.
GREEN ICON: Articles featuring a green icon after the number are included in ISU’s regular subscription. Simply open the PDF, or mark one or more item numbers for email or export, as you normally do.
WHITE ICON: Articles with the white icon after the number are – for the most part – covered by our Transactional Access contract. (There are exceptions in the box on the top left of this Web page.) Accessing these articles in incur additional costs to the Library, so we would ask you to carefully consider whether you absolutely need a copy of the article. We have set aside a specific amount of our collection development funds for this; therefore, there is a finite number of articles that we will be able to provide in this manner.
YES, I STILL WANT THIS ARTICLE!
4. Clicking on the PDF link for an article with a GREEN ICON opens the full-text of the article.
Clicking on the PDF link for an article with a WHITE ICON opens a page giving you the choice to “continue” or “cancel” your selection.
5. Clicking on “Continue” will open the full-text of the article in PDF. This action will cost the Library about $30.00 from a finite fund to view the full-text; therefore, please do not view the article unless you really need it.
To search for specific ISU print and electronic journal, magazine, or newspaper subscriptions, we recommend the following:
Students taking all distance learning classes (and, therefore, are assumed to not have easy access to ISU's campus) can request that Interlibrary Loan send them physical materials owned by ISU's Cunningham Memorial Library. Some materials, such as DVDs and reference materials, do not qualify.
To find a print journal subscription,
Students taking all distance learning classes (and, therefore, are assumed to not have easy access to ISU's campus) during a semester can request that Interlibrary Loan send them physical materials owned by ISU's Cunningham Memorial Library. Some materials, such as DVDs and reference materials, do not qualify.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
If ISU does not have either an electronic subscription, ScienceDirect access, or a print subscription that includes your article, go to Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
So, you've found an article citation and you want to get the entire article. What do you do? Where do you go to find the article? You will need to find a copy of the journal.
Students taking all distance learning classes (and, therefore, are assumed to not have easy access to ISU's campus) during a semester can request that Interlibrary Loan send them physical materials owned by ISU's Cunningham Memorial Library. Some materials, such as DVDs and reference materials, do not qualify.
LinkSource is a software program that connects ISU databases together to allow access to full text. ISU uses the link Check For Availability. If full text is not available in the database, click on Check For Availability to see if it is full text in another ISU database. A new window will open on your computer. If possible, you will be linked directly to the full text article, but sometimes you are linked to the journal page and you have to browse to the appropriate date, volume, issue, and page numbers.
DO NOT BUY THE ARTICLE. If you are given an option to buy the article, don’t! Use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service to get the article for free. ILL costs are covered by your tuition.
To find articles on reserve,
1. Go to the Library Homepage at http://library.indstate.edu/
1. click on "Course Reserve" from the Library homepage.
2. Then click on "Electronic Reserves & Reserve Pages." You can browse for reserve items by course number, department, or instructor.
Some ISU print journals are located in Remote Storage. This storage space is only accessible to library personnel. The library send staff to Remote Storage once a day in the afternoon to pick up requested items and bring them back to the Circulation Desk.
To request a Remote Storage item,
Some older issues of journals are available on Microform or Microfilm in the ISU Library. This is when the journal pages have been placed on pages or reels of film.
To view Microfilm or Microform item,