You may also want to consult the Find IT FAQ page.

What is Find It?

is a service that provides links between journal databases and the full text of articles licensed or purchased by Ingram Library regardless of where they originate.

For Example:
While many of our databases provide links that can take you to the full text of an article (meaning you can read the article entirely online), some databases only provide you with citation information. A citation consists of basic bibliographical information about an article, such as the author, title of the article, title of the publication in which the article can be found (i.e., the name of the journal, magazine, scholarly journal, newspaper, book, etc.), the date of publication, etc. But a citation doesn't allow you to read the article online.

That's Where the Find It Service Comes In !
Suppose, for example, you're searching the MLA International Bibliography database to find articles for an English paper you're writing on folk religion or voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. As you conduct your search you find a citation for an article that you want to read, but the MLA database doesn't provide you with a link to the full text. For example:

To determine whether the Library can provide you with access to the full text of the article, click on the button to see a menu of options available for the citation of interest.

These options include:

• links directly to the full text of an article regardless of the content provider;
• automated searching of the Library catalog (GIL) to check our print holdings if the article is not available online;
• automated searching of the GIL Universal Catalog to check the print holdings of other institutions in Georgia;
• the ability to place an Interlibrary Loan request for articles not available in either print or electronic format.

For Example:
After clicking on the button for the sample citation above, the following menu of options will be provided to you.

For this particular example, to access and read the full text of the article, you would click on the link for the Project Muse database. Doing so would provide you with direct access to the article. Other databases may require you to make a few extra clicks or redo your search in the target database to access the article.

It's that Simple!
In effect, the service can turn a database that used to provide only citations and abstracts into a full text database. Find It will link you to any available full text options, and will also inform you if the requested article is not available online.

Find It saves you time because you no longer need to write down a citation and then use the catalog to see if the Library owns the publication in paper or online. A couple of clicks and Find It does the work for you.

To find out more about , including instructions on how to use it, visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Want to see if we have the full text for a citation you already have?
Use the Journal Locator.