Depending upon the amount of information available, several options are available to find full text of an article when you have a citation, or part of a citation. The following journal article, published in 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Psychology is used in the examples on this page.

"Effects of Interactions with Animals on Human Psychological Distress" by Molly K. Crossman.

To find full text of an article when you have a citation, locate the journal issue and find the article.

1. Access the Journal Finder+. Key in the journal name.
   
2. Under the journal title, choose a database link that has the dates you need.
   
3. On the Publication Details page, select the date and volume. (shown below, right)
   
   
   If you do not know the exact date or issue, click Search within this publication. (shown circled above)
   Key in terms that identify the article, such as "human psychological distress" (shown below)
   
4. Scroll to the article. Click the title or the full text links, such as PDF, HTML.
   Note: PDF is the digitized version of the article; HTML is a simple typed format.

When you have the article title, use EagleSearch, which searches multiple databases, simultaneously.

Access EagleSearch.
Key in the article title, or part of it. Put quotation marks around the title so the words are searched as a phrase. Change the Keyword field to Title. Click Search.
Click the title or the full text links, such as PDF, HTML and Linked Full Text.

If you know the name of the database where the article is available full text, access the database, and key in the title (or part of the title). Click Search.