For journals NSU Libraries have full text electronic access to, why aren the most recent issues available?
Because there may be an embargo on that journal issue. An embargo can be explained as follows: “A publisher agrees to let an aggregator offer full-text after holding the material for a pre-established period of time. Typically, the vendor provides indexing when the material is first published and adds the text after the holding period has elapsed. Embargoes allow the publisher to protect revenue from newsstand sales and subscriptions.” Source: Thomson Gale If you find a citation in one database to a recent article that you would like to have in full text, conduct a search for that journal title in the Journal Finder, because it’s possible that another database may already have the full text available. Always look at the coverage periods that accompany the results of the search and compare them to the date of your article. If full text is not available in any database, it’s possible that there is a global embargo on that particular journal issue. Your next step would then be to request
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