Finding the Full Text of Journal Articles and Annual Reviews on the WWW

Note to Full Text Users: Although the number of journals available electronically is growing, there are journals available in print only that are important to research in your discipline. Some professional associations make the latest year or issue available in full text on the Web. Most of the resources listed below are part of the UC Intranet or OhioLINK Intranet restricted to those affiliated with UC or OhioLINK institutions.

Key to Access Codes for Access from Home:

UC=UC students, faculty, and staff only.
O Students, faculty, and staff of OhioLINK institutions
A Anyone with WWW access.

Databases

Full Text Journals

Annual Reviews Available at UC

Strategy for Accessing Full Text Resources

Can I Access Full Text Resources from Home?

How Can I Speed up Printing of Full Article

Databases with Some Articles Available in Full Text:

Listed below are some of the databases of interest to the educator which include the full text of some but not all of articles indexed:

Education Abstracts (http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/edua) O

Includes over 190 full text journals c. 1996+

Periodical Abstracts (http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/pabs) O

Includes some articles in full text from general and selected education journals
Links made in ERIC and Education Abstracts to full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (EAI ASAP) (http://www.searchbank.com/searchbank/ucinc_main) UC

Includes some articles full text articles from general and selected education journals.
Permits limiting to full text articles if 15-20 articles are retrieved.

Dow Jones News and Retrieval Service UC http://nrstg1s.djnr.com/cgi-bin/DJInteractive_Page?cgi= WEB_FLAT_PAGE&GJANum=718253500&page=wrapper/index&entry_point=1) UC

Includes many but not all articles in full text.
Less useful for education

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe) O

Includes many but not all articles in full text. Some titles that used to be available in full text have been limited to abstracts or dropped.
Less useful for education

ABI Inform (http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/abig)

Includes many but not all articles in full text. O
Less useful for education

Alphabetical List of Indexes/ Databases with Partial or Complete Full Text

Full Text Journals

The journals included in the Web sites listed below are all available in full text. Some of the sites included are of greater interest to the sciences, medicine,psychology or the humanities OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Permits searching of journals,as well as browsing by title.

Includes:

Academic Press, 1995-
Elsevier Science, 1995-
Johns Hopkins University Press (Project MUSE), 1995/96-
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997-
Springer-Verlag, 1994-

Project Muse ( http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals)

Primarily humanities journals.
Permits searching of journals, as well as browsing by title.

CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) Electronic Journal Collection (http://ejournals.cic.net) A

Permits browsing of journals by subject area but not the searching of a specific topic
Pulls together journals available free of charge on the WWW.
At a later date may include full text journals available only to CIC (Big 10 Institutions + University of Chicago)

JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/listjournal) UC

Includes back files of journals up to circa last five years, e.g. Journal of Higher Education is available, 1930-1992 as of 10/98
Permits keyword, author, and full text searching of journals, as well as browsing by title. Useful for history, mathematics, philosophy, sociology, economics, etc

Alphabetical List of UC and OhioLINK Full Text Journal Databases

Annual Reviews Available at UC

Annual Review of Anthropology, 1996+ (http://www.AnnualReviews.org) UC

Table of contents only are available for 1984-1995; however, JSTOR has the full text of 1992-1994 (1995 not yet available) and the Biennial Review ofAnthropology, 1959-1971.

Annual Review of Psychology, 1996+ http://www. AnnualReviews.org UC

Table of contents only are available for 1984-1995.

Annual Review of Sociology ,1996+ (http://soc.AnnualReviews.org)

Table of contents only are available for 1984-1985; however, JSTOR has 1975-1994 (1995 not yet available)

Strategy for Accessing Full Text Resources

There are several ways of accessing full text resources:

1 Searching by periodical title on the Web version of UCLID, e.g. Contemporary Educational Psychology

2 Selecting Full Text Sources of Interest to the College of Education off AskEmily Home page.

3 Selecting Full Text from the Indexes and Databases...section of the University of Cincinnati Libraries Home Page.

4 Selecting the OhioLINK Electronic Text Services (http://www.ohiolink.edu/etext.pl).

5 Clicking on the Location box in Netscape and entering a specific URL or address.

6 Searching the WWW using a Web Search Engine or Meta-Search Engine like Go to.com, etc. for other resources available in full text. Some items retrieved may require a password or paying for a subscription.

Can I Access Full Text Resources from Home?

Yes, if the WWW site is open to the public like Project Gutenberg or the Ohio Department of Education. Otherwise, those items marked UC & O are available only if your computer is recognized as belonging to a UC or OhioLINK student, faculty member, staff member. Listed below are three ways to access OhioLINK

and UC resources from off campus.

1. To access most OhioLINK databases and the Electronic Journal Center without a remote access account if you use AOL, Cincinnati Bell, etc. to search the Web, use your Student ID and Pin Number. Items marked UC do require the Remote Access Account or ZoomTown to access the database or full text resource.

To create a pin number, go to UCLID (Web or Telnet) and choose View Your Circulation Record or View Your Own Library Recordand follow instructions. Pin numbers may be numeric and/or alphabetic. If you are from another OhioLINK institution, check with that college or university to see what is available from home.

To access items restricted to UC from off campus you need one of the following accounts:

2 Starting a Remote Access Account (Internet Access from off campus)( http://ra.uc.edu/remacc). Sign up for Remote Acess Account
3 ZoomTown (http://helpdesk.uc.edu /ra) ( $34.95) (Installation charge after 2/29/00)

How Can I Speed up Printing of Full Article

1 If printing from a Full Text Database giving a print format choice, e.g. Periodical Abstracts, ABI Inform, etc., choose Text+ \Graphics (this choice will besuppressed if there are no tables or

graphics in the article) then choose another Image or Text

2 Use a windows 95 computer or Mac equivalent

3 Use a Laser Printer if available.

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