Chemistry Seminar - Fall 2022 (21:160:453 / 26:160:601)
This guide was created specifically for Dr. Stacey Brenner-Moyer's class - Fall 2022
4b. Flowchart for accessing full-text articles at Rutgers
As a Rutgers student, you generally do not have to pay to get the full-text of an article. If Rutgers does not own or subscribe to it, request the article through interlibrary loan. Just be sure to try the following methods first...
More tips for finding full-text!
Scholarly articles may be freely available through non-traditional means:
- Some publishers (including the American Chemical Society) are making certain articles available free of charge; others are allowing authors to pay an additional fee to make their specific article in a hybrid journal Open Access.
- Many universities and some colleges now have institutional repositories where authors may deposit scholarly articles freely viewable by all. Similarly, there are subject repositories offering authors the same option. Keep in mind, however, that the versions available through these repositories may not necessarily be the final, published ones; but they may be post-prints that are very close to the published version.
Therefore, if the Rutgers University Libraries does not subscribe to a journal, before requesting it via interlibrary loan, consider Googling the article title on the off-chance that the article is immediately available through alternative means.
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Google ScholarTo access full text available through the Rutgers Libraries, perform your search in the box at the link above and then click Get it @ R.
Open Access (OA)
- “Gold” OA journals
- all content is free
- Hybrid journals
- some articles are freely available, others are for-fee
- “Green” OA repositories
- all content is free and can include pre-prints and/or post-prints
- may be embargoes to access
- Rutgers's institutional repository: RUcore
- SOAR (Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers) is where Rutgers, faculty and graduate students are now required to submit their Accepted Manuscripts (AM) if posting the Version of Record is not possible
- Disciplinary repositories: arXiv, PubMed Central, and more!
- all content is free and can include pre-prints and/or post-prints
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arXiv"arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,767,483 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on [the] site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv."
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PubMed CentralPubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). All the articles in PubMed Central are free (sometimes on a delayed basis). Some journals go beyond free, to Open Access.