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How can I search for & request articles?

PLEASE NOTE: Articles which require institutional access are available through the internal SISSA network or from outside using the VPN connection and your SISSA credentials (for more information about VPN service, please see the ITCS web site https://www.itcs.sissa.it).

To find an article through its title and/or the journal title

Try to find the article you need using ALL 4 steps we suggest you:
- a) & b) steps using the title of the journal,
- c) & d) steps using the title of the article.

 

Search using the title of the journal

a) On the main library website page select E-journals, then insert the title of the journal in the search field (SISSA users can access subscribed & open access journals, recent issues & back files, through one or more access "platform" links),
        1. if the journal appears, click on Full Text Access and choose the appropriate access "platform" link,
        2. if the journal does not appear, check the journal website directly, because the article could be freely available.

b) Check our printed collection through the SISSA catalog.
In the search field insert the title of the journal.
If the search is successful, select the title of the journal. Then in the new result page look for the line starting with Holdings to see the summary of the journal issues and time periods available, as well as its location in the Library. Please note: it is NOT possible to take printed journals on loan. You can ask to photocopy the article you need inside the library.

 

Search using the title of the article

c) Try to use Google Scholar, through which you might find some open access (preprint, postprint, etc.) and republished commercial articles. Using Google Scholar you can often obtain the full bibliographic data of an article, so you can try to find it using the title of the journal as explained in the steps a) & b) above.

d) Try to use the SISSA Discovery Service, on the main library website page:

>> PLEASE NOTE: the search in the SISSA Discovery service is by default a search in all the SISSA library collections. If you want to extend your search to external sources, remove the check in the Limit to section on the Available in SISSA Library Collection option. <<

1) select the Title option,
2) then insert the title of the article (or a part of it) in the search field (SISSA Discovery Service basic search),
3) at the end select the search icon. The search tool will look for the title in the online & printed journals subscribed to by SISSA. If you want to extend your search to external sources, remove the check in the Limit to section on the Available in SISSA Library Collection option.
4) In the "Search Results" page, you may restrict your search by selecting the Available Full Text option and/or by selecting a Source Type.
If the article appears on the “Search Results” page:

    -  you can obtain its bibliographic reference by selecting its title;

    - you can try to download the article by selecting one of the following links if they appear: “Full Text through LinkSource”, “Full Text Finder”, “Find full text on another site”;

    - if “Printed journal available in the library” appears, click on it to check if the journal is really in our SISSA catalog printed collection. On the SISSA Catalog result page, select the title of the journal then in the new result page look for the line starting with Holdings to see the summary of the journal issues and time periods available, as well as its location in the Library. Please note: it is NOT possible to take journals on loan. You can ask to photocopy the article you need inside the library.

    - If the article is not available online and it is not in our printed collection, try to extend your search removing in the Discovey Service search result page the check in the Limit to section on the Available in SISSA Library Collection option. If you find a result with the following link“NOT in SISSA collection - ask for articles/books”, select it and you can automatically insert its bibliographic references into the Document Delivery request instead of typing them manually into the  Document Delivery (DD) request form.

 

Using the SISSA Discovery Service advanced search when you have little information about the article

>> PLEASE NOTE: the search in the SISSA Discovery service is by default a search in all the SISSA library collections. If you want to extend your search to external sources, remove the check in the Limit to section on the Available in SISSA Library Collection option. <<