Frustrated with having to pay for articles when searching in Google Scholar? This guide shows UCT staff & students how to access full text articles in Google Scholar by using SFX.

1. Finding full text articles
using
SFX in Google Scholar
By Linda Kelly l Academic Librarian @ UCT Libraries
Linda.Kelly@uct.ac.za l April 2014
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

2. Got a reading list and need to find the full
text journal articles?
Let’s use this journal article as the example:
Popkin, J.H. 2013. Social costs from
proximity to hydraulic fracturing in New York
State. Energy policy, 62: p62 -69.
Go to the UCT Libraries website:
www.lib.uct.ac.za
Click on Off Campus Login

3. Fill in your details
o username: student/staff number
o password: same as UCT email/Vula

4. Congratulations! You are now through the
firewall and can now access the full text
articles & eBooks that UCT Libraries
subscribes to 
Since you already have the article title, go
straight to Google Scholar

5. Type in the article title and click search/hit
enter button on keyboard

6. The first hit is the article you are looking for
To the right is the SFX@UCT icon
Click on the SFX@UCT icon

7. The page opens with the generic SFX page
The article title as well as the source info
(i.e. journal title, author, year, volume, etc.)
are displayed at the top
The Full Text section tells one from where
full text is available
In this case full text is available via x3
platforms
I clicked on GO for the top one, i.e. Elsevier
ScienceDirect

8. The page opens in Science Direct with the
online format of the article.
On the top left is the article in PDF format:
see Downlad PDF & PDF icon
Check that this is the right article
o Below is the journal title, volume, year
and page info
o Below this is the article title
Scroll down to view the online article
displayed below
Go back to Google Scholar and in the same
way, locate the other articles from your
reading list 
For more info on using UCT Library resources
o look at the Archaeology, Environmental & Geographical Science, and Oceanography LibGuides
o contact me: Linda.Kelly@uct.ac.za
o call the UCT Libraries Info Desk: +27 21 650 3703/4