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Pharmaceutical Science

Finding the full-text of academic articles

If you need to find the full-text of a journal article try these options:

  1. Does TU Dublin have access to it?
  2. Search Google Scholar
  3.  Try Open Access Button or Unpaywall
    • install these bookmarklets in your browser and they can help locate an open access version of the article
    • Or try the CORE Discovery tool for open access versions of the article.
  4. Email the authors and ask if they would be willing to supply a copy of the article.
    • Author contact details are usually supplied in the database article citation
    • Or contact the authors via Researchgate or Academia.edu and ask them to share a copy of their paper 
  5. Check to see if another academic library has it in print format
  6.  Use our Inter Library Loan Service
    • We will try and obtain the article for you from another library. There is a six euro processing charge for undergraduates and an eight euro fee for postgraduates. Find out more about Inter Library Loans.
  7. If all else fails you may have to buy the article from the publisher.

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