Why does x journal charge me when I follow the full text link from PubMed?

Last Updated: Feb 24, 2023     Views: 42

Q. Why does x journal charge me when I follow the full text link from PubMed?


Answer:

Through its Linkout technology/program PubMed offers links to a variety of full text journals, books, and other resources. For many PubMed citations, if you view PubMed search results in "Abstract" or full record view you'll see icons that link to the publisher/providers site to retrieve full text. In some few cases the link will be to free full text online, but most of these publisher/provider links will be to "pay per use" articles.

You can very easily link to many of the library's electronic journals while searching PubMed. All you have to do is click the special link to PubMed under "Find Resources" on the library's home page or use the PubMed search box on the library's home page, perform your search, and view the results in "Abstract" or full record view.

A black “Find Full Text @ USC School of Medicine Library” will appear next to each citation when you are viewing the abstract. The “Find Full Text @ USC School of Medicine Library" icon appears after every citation of the search results regardless of whether full text is available from the SOM Library or not. Select the Find Full Text @ USC School of Medicine Library icon to search for full text access.  This icon will automatically search our e-journals database for you. If no full text is available to you, there will be a link to request the item through Interlibrary Loan and a link to search the library catalog for print.

Library Fulltext search Icon for PubMed.


  • Last Updated Feb 24, 2023
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