Options for Accessing the Full Article in EBSCOhost

There are many different ways the library is able to provide the full text of an article found in the EBSCOhost databases. This series of screenshots will help you know what each option means and what to expect when you encounter each button option. The options will be displayed when you click on the "Access options" button, though some may simply say "Access Now" and state what type of display you will get.

Click on Access options

Article Available within the EBSCOhost Database

4 Steps

If a PDF is available through EBSCO, you will be able to click the PDF without leaving the EBSCOhost site.

PDF Version

Multiple options may be listed (PDF or Online full text). If a PDF is available, you should choose the PDF. The PDF presents the content in the way it was intended to be displayed, keeping charts and images in the document location where they were placed by the author or editor.

PDF View

The article will open in a pane within EBSCO, with a bar along the top that allows you to continue using EBSCO's features and easily return to your results.

Online full text

Full Text View

The article will open in a pane within EBSCO, with a bar along the top that allows you to continue using EBSCO's features and easily return to your results. More features may be available with this view, but you may lose page numbers or contextual information.

Full Text available from other Databases

2 Steps

The "Find It" button checks all available resources for the full text of an article, including other databases available to HACC students.

Click on Find It!

New Database Window

Because this is a new interface, you will have to look around to see if it is available as a PDF or as a webpage.

Open Access

4 Steps

Open Access publications are freely available online. Many are peer-reviewed publications with a less financially-driven publishing model. These publications are listed in the database, but the text lives outside of the database.

Click on Find It!

The "Find It" option looks through all available resources. there is only one option, clicking "Find It" button will open a new tab or window and take you to the source or the page to access the source.

Click on Get Open Access version

If multiple options are available, a new tab or window will open and ask you to select a version. It doesn't really matter which one you choose, but it will be opened in another new tab or window.

You may have to look around on the page to find the link to the PDF

Since these are all pages outside of the database, we can't know how the article will be presented, but it will be there.

How the article displays will vary, but you should be able to get the full text.

Request Materials through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

3 Steps

Sometimes the full text is not available. It may be too old, too new, only available in print, or simply not part of our collection. If you reach a dead end you can always ask the library try to get it for you!

Click on Find It!

Click on Request Material

Even though it says 14 days, don't be alarmed! If it's available, it may be faster. Make the request, hope for the best, but keep looking just in case it doesn't arrive on time!

Fill out the form

You may be asked to log in, but if not it likely already knows who you are. Fill out as much information about the item you are requesting as you can.

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