1. Nova Southeastern University
Health Professions Division Library
FIND FULL-TEXT USING THE
LINK IN THE DATABASES

2. What is Full-Text?
Full Text - Refers to the electronic representation of a
document that includes the complete text of the original
document - usually a book or an article.
 PDF files provide a  HTML files provide the
visual replica, or complete text and may
scanned copy, of the include
material as it was graphs, tables, images
originally published in from the original. The
print and therefore original formatting and
preserve all page numeration is often
formatting, page lost in HTML versions.
numeration, and
original
images, charts, graphs,
etc.

3. What is Find It!?
 Find It! acts as an intermediary service to create a
shortcut link between a citation in a database and
the full text of a document.
 Find It! Saves you time – you no longer need to
write down the citation and then check the Journal
Finder, NovaCat or other databases…Find It! does it
for you.
 If full text is not available online, it
provides other options for obtaining full
text.

4. How to use Find It!
 Using Find It! is easy. When searching a database, you
will see the Find It! button on citations that do
not have the full text available in that database.

5. Journal Finder
 Enter the journal name in the
Find: box
 Use an * to enter partial
words, i.e. Biolog* Psy*
 Other search options include
Publisher, ISSN, or subjects
 Searches can be for
Contains, Begins With, or Exact
Match
 More options allow you to browse
titles and to search by DOI

6.  The search produced 3 journal titles
Journal Finder containing the words Biological
psychiatry
 The first one is where our article
appears
 Notice that the journal is offered in
electronic full-text format in the
ScienceDirect database from 1995-
present
 Click on the link for ScienceDirect to
navigate to the article

7. Navigating to the article
Bienvenu, O. J., Samuels, J. F., Riddle, M.A., Hoehn-
Saric, R., Liang, K-Y., Cullen, B. A. M., Grandoes, M.
A., & Nestadt, G. (2000). The relationship of obsessive-
compulsive disorder to possible spectrum disorders:
results from a family study. Biological
Psychiatry, 48, 287-293.
 The opening page is for the
current issue of Biological
Psychiatry.
 On the left side is a list of
Articles in Press, which are the
previous issues of this journal.
 Our article was published in
2000, volume 48.

8. Navigating to the article
Bienvenu, O. J., Samuels, J. F., Riddle, M.A., Hoehn-
Saric, R., Liang, K-Y., Cullen, B. A. M., Grandoes, M.
A., & Nestadt, G. (2000). The relationship of obsessive-
compulsive disorder to possible spectrum disorders:
results from a family study. Biological
Psychiatry, 48, 287-293.
 Click on the link for the
Volumes/Year of the article.

9. Navigating to the article
Bienvenu, O. J., Samuels, J. F., Riddle, M.A., Hoehn-
Saric, R., Liang, K-Y., Cullen, B. A. M., Grandoes, M.
A., & Nestadt, G. (2000). The relationship of obsessive-
compulsive disorder to possible spectrum disorders:
results from a family study. Biological
Psychiatry, 48, 287-293.
 From the list select the volume
where your article appears.

10. Navigating to the article
Bienvenu, O. J., Samuels, J. F., Riddle, M.A., Hoehn-
Saric, R., Liang, K-Y., Cullen, B. A. M., Grandoes, M.
A., & Nestadt, G. (2000). The relationship of obsessive-
compulsive disorder to possible spectrum disorders:
results from a family study. Biological
Psychiatry, 48, 287-293.
 Our article is #4 in the results
list. Simply click on the PDF link
to open the full-text.

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