Electronic Resources Blog

Although we’re always working hard in the background to try and ensure you can get easy, simple and quick access to the full-text of journal articles via Summon, we can’t guarantee it will work all of the time — with access to over 34 million articles, it would take library staff years* to check them all.

If you click on a link and you’re not able to get the full-text, there are a couple of things you can do…

1. Check to see if you can access the full-text from somewhere else

If you’ve clicked on a result in Summon, you might see something like this if the link to the full-text isn’t working:

At the top of the page, check to see if it says No full-text? Look for more sources or report a problem. If it does, click on the more sources link:

The “Article Linker” page should appear and you can check to see if the full-text is available elsewhere — in this particular case, the article is also available on two other sites:

2. Let us know so we can fix the problem

Since we have access to so many journal articles, we don’t always know when something isn’t working properly. It only takes a few seconds to report a problem and we’ll endeavour to fix the issue as quickly as possible.

On every “Article Linker” page you’ll find a “report a problem” link in the “Need Help?” section. Just click on that link, add a short description of the problem (e.g. “full text doesn’t work”) and then click submit:

Don’t forgot to include your email address is you’d like a reply!

* if we checked 1 article every second for 12 hours a day, it would take well over 2 years to check them all :-S

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