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Last Updated: Oct 14, 2025     Views: 28451

If you've found that perfect article, and the full text isn't linked with it (or it isn't free), try these steps:

  1. Use the APUS journal title search to double-check for the article in our library's databases. Click here for step-by-step search instructions. (Why do this? We may have access to a journal through more than one database, and the journal title search is the best way to find out.)  
     
  2. Next, try Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/
     
    • Type (or copy and paste) the article title into the Google Scholar search box. Double-check your spelling, and type quotation marks around the entire title for the quickest match. 
       
    • Click the search button, and look for PDF or HTML links to the right of each title in your search results. See the screen capture below. (Important: If a publisher website asks you to pay to view an article, then move on to step #3, below.)

A screen capture demonstrating free full text links to a specific article in Google Scholar. The image can be clicked to open a page of instructions to set Google Scholar up to show full text links from the APUS Library.



 

  1. If you don't see the article you need in steps 1 or 2, then you can submit an interlibrary loan requestIt's a free service, and the article will be emailed to you. Click here to submit an article request. (Note: Change the radio button on the form from Book to Article.)
     

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