by Bobbi Conliffe, M.S. L.S., OU-HCOM
Coordinator of Curriculum Resources
edited by Doug Mann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Medicine
1) When you search PubMed, use this link, which
is customized for OU-HCOM users:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?myncbishare=oucom
Let’s take a look at the screen shown below.
The second row of tabs (outlined above in red)
shows us in order: the number of items retrieved, the number of
items in English, the number of items for which free full electronic
text is available, the number of items for which full electronic
text exists, the number of items available through OU libraries
(print or electronic), and the number of review articles. By using
the free full text and Ohio University Libraries tabs, we can limit
our efforts to those items which are most likely to be available.
Let’s look at the first citation:
This icon
 indicates
that free full text is available to all users. There is no need to
use either of the other icons. (see below for explanation)
Let’s look at the second citation:
There are 4 links for this citation: 2 in the
upper right corner, and 2 in the lower left corner. Here is the
order you should click on them, in order of the likelihood that you
will get to the full text:
 Shows
that it is in the OhioLINK electronic journal center and therefore
should be available to all OU users.
Shows that it is a resource for Ohio University.
Occasionally, this icon will be attached to an item that is only
available to people enrolled at the branch campuses.
Clicking on this icon will find the item within the Ohio
University and OhioLINK systems if it exists, but it takes a couple
of extra clicks.
This is the publisher’s link. It may take you to the full
text (some articles may be free access) or recognize a University IP
address as part of a licensing arrangement. It may, just as often,
take you to a screen which prompts you to pay a fee to see the
article.
Here is another icon you will want to be able
to recognize:
Indicates that Ohio University has the item in print format.
You can request these items via the Ohio University Libraries'
interlibrary loan/document delivery system
(ILLiad)
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