Does SciFinder link to full text articles on the Web?
The full text button appears with every record on the results summary and full record displays. Clicking on this icon launches your web browser and takes you to ChemPort, the CAS full text gateway. In ChemPort, you should click on the link to UT-Austin Electronic Access which takes you to a menu of UT-specific access options for journals. When we do not have access to electronic full text, the next menu includes an option to search the library catalog for the printed journal in question. The ChemPort window may also include a direct link to the publisher’s content, but this bypasses our local proxy and subscription filters and you may be denied access or miss other full text options. In cases of patent documents, you should see only the direct link to an open access patent database. It is important to remember that digital full text does not yet exist for the vast bulk of published journal literature published before the mid-1990s, conferences, books, dissertations, etc. The full text
The full text link appears with every record on the results summary and full record displays. Clicking on this link takes you to ChemPort, the CAS full text gateway. In ChemPort, you should click on the link to UT-Austin Electronic Access which takes you to a menu of UT-specific access options for journals. When we do not have access to electronic full text, the next menu includes an option to search the library catalog for the printed journal in question. The ChemPort window may also include a direct link to the publisher’s content, but you may be denied access or miss other full text options. In cases of patent documents, you should see only the direct link to an open access patent database. It is important to remember that digital full text does not yet exist for the bulk of journal literature published before the mid-1990s, or for conferences, books, tech reports, dissertations, etc. of any age. The full text link does not mean that an electronic version of that document exists —
