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What is Find it @ BU? Find it @ BU is based on a service called SFX that allows you to seamlessly link from citations in selected databases to the full text of the item in another database. It can also link you to other information or services related to the item, such as a search of the library's catalog, an option to export the item's citation to RefWorks, to interlibrary loan forms, or to help/FAQ pages such as this one. How do I use Find it @ BU? Note: not all of the library's databases connect to or from Find it @ BU. Please see the list below for databases which have this capability, either as a "source" (a database in which you will see the Find it @ BU button or link) or as a "target" (a database to which you can link to full text content from a Find it @ BU menu), or both. Do a database search, and view the list of results. If the full text of the article you want is not already available in that database, click on the button to bring up a menu of links. The links lead to where the full text of the item is located, or possibly to other information or services, such as a link to an interlibrary loan form if the full text of the item is not available through Benedictine. Click the button on the menu to connect to that link. Will Find it @ BU work from off campus? Yes. Once you log in with your Library ID number and last name, the Find it @ BU menus will be available to you. Why are there multiple links to the same article? If the article is available in more than one database, the Find it @ BU menu will list all possible sources. This lets you retrieve the article from a different database if your first choice is not available for some reason. When I clicked I ended up on the journal's home page or table of contents instead of linking to the full text of the article. What happened? Some journal databases or Web sites are not set up to be able to link directly to articles, or the citation information within the link may be incomplete or incorrect. In that case Find it @ BU will get you as close to the article as it can, usually to the journal's home page or that issue's table of contents. From there you will need to search for, or browse to, the article you want. If I go back and select a different resource from the menu, it doesn't seem to work the second time. What happened? This is an Internet Explorer problem. When you first click GO on a menu selection, IE opens a new browser window on top of your other open windows. However, when you make another selection the new browser window is not promoted to the top again and may get "buried" under other open windows. Check your toolbar (at the bottom of your screen) for open IE windows and open them in turn. The results of your menu selection will be in one of the other open browser windows. There are no full text links to the article I want. Now what? Full text is not always available for a variety of reasons: The library doesn't subscribe to that journal electronically The publisher does not make an electronic version available (or only makes it available some time after the print version is published, known as an "embargo") The article is in a database that is not compatible with Find it @ BU The article is too old to have an electronic version Click on the link to Benedictine's Journal Holdings List to see if the library owns the journal in print or microform or if it is available in a database that cannot use Find it @ BU. If the journal is not listed, you can request a copy of the article by using the "Interlibrary Loan Forms" link on the Find it @ BU menu, or click here to access a menu of ILL forms. I have a citation for an article. How do I find the full text for it? Check Benedictine's Journal Holdings List from the library's home page to see if the library holds the journal you need. You may also try the Find it @ BU Citation Linker at http://sfx.carli.illinois.edu/sfxben/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi. Enter as much of the citation as you know and click 'GO.' A Find it @ BU menu will display, showing the closest matches to your citation information. From there you can link to full text, if available. How do I use Google Scholar with Find it @ BU? Information on this feature is forthcoming. List of databases that work with Find it @ BU: Database Source? / link indicated by: Target? Notes: ABI / Inform Yes / Yes   Academic Search Elite Yes / Yes   ACS Publications No Yes   AGRICOLA Yes / No   Alternative Press Index Yes / No   Annual Reviews No Yes Links are at volume-level only Applied Science Full Text (Wilson) Yes / Yes   ArticleFirst Yes / Yes   Arts & Humanities Citation Index Yes / No   ATLA Religion Database & ATLA Serials Yes / Yes   Basic BIOSIS Yes / No   BioDigest Yes / No   Business Dateline Yes / Yes   Business and Industry Yes / Yes   Business and Management Practices Yes / Yes   Business Source Elite Yes / Yes   BusinessOrgs Yes / No   Catholic Periodical & Literature Index Yes / No   CINAHL Yes / Yes   Clase & Periodica Yes / No   Communication & Mass Media Complete Yes / Yes   Consumer Index Yes / No   Contemporary Women's Issues Yes / Yes   CQ Researcher No Yes   Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations) No Yes   EconLit Yes / No   Electronic Collections Online Yes / Yes   Emerald under development Yes   ERIC Yes /     Ethnic Newswatch No Yes   FactSearch Yes / No   GEOBASE Yes / No   Google Scholar - Beta under development --   GPO Monthly Catalog Yes / No   Health Source: Consumer Edition Yes / Yes   Health Source: Nursing/Academic Yes / Yes   Humanities Full Text (Wilson) Yes / Yes   JSTOR No Yes   Lexis-Nexis Academic No Yes When linking TO this database, you will be brought only to the main menu and will have to re-search for your article within Lexis-Nexis Academic. Liebert Online No Yes Links are at volume-level only Literature Resource Center Yes / Find it @ BU Yes   MAS Ultra Yes / Yes   Media Review Digest Yes / No   MEDLINE Yes / No   Military & Government Collection Yes / Yes   MLA International Bibliography Yes / Find it @ BU No   netLibrary No Yes   Newspaper Abstracts Yes / No   Newspaper Source Yes / forthcoming   PapersFirst Yes / No   Periodical Abstracts Yes / forthcoming   Primary Search Yes / Yes   Proceedings Yes / No   Professional Development Collection Yes / Yes   PsycINFO & PsycARTICLES Yes / Yes   Regional Business News Yes / Yes   Science Direct No Yes   SIRS Researcher Yes / No   Social Sciences Full Text (Wilson) Yes / Yes   Synergy Yes / Yes   WilsonSelect Plus Yes / Yes   WorldCat Yes / No   Worldscope Yes / No   A source is a database in which you will see a Find it @ BU button or link. A target is a database containing full text content to which you link to from a Find it @ BU menu),