FAQ: Getting Full Text Articles

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There are several ways to get full text articles. You may be charged, however, to view and print these articles.

Full text options in PubMed:

• Open Limits menu in PubMed, and select “Links to full text”, then run search strategy.
  
  For a list of full text journals in PubMed, go to the Linkout journal list at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/journals/jourlists.cgi?
  
  
• Click on publisher icon in Abstract View and go directly to the publisher’s Web site
  
  
• See PubMed Help for How to Get the Journal Article at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.section.pubmedhelp.How_to_Get_the_Journ

Other free full text options:

• PubMed Central is a free digital archive of full-text journal articles kept by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Go to http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
  
  
• Free from the publisher. A few publishers will provide free access to articles after you register as a guest.
  
  
• For more suggestions, go to Free Biomedical Literature Resources at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/freehealthlit.html

Order from document delivery companies.

• Look in your telephone book yellow pages under "Library Research & Services." The NLM does not endorse these companies or the services they provide.

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Last reviewed: 18 September 2008
Last updated: 18 September 2008
First published: 04 May 2006
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