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Until now database users wanting to link from an article record in a database such as Biological Sciences or Historical Abstracts have had a fair bit of work: Either

1. Open a second window and search Trellis or the e-journals database to see if we have it.
2. If there is what looks like a convenient link to the article it's actually a lottery! You might:
   • Get connected to the article.
   • Find that they link to a journal we do not subscribe to. (We do not always have control over the links that some database suppliers provide!)
   • Find that, while we do subscribe to the journal, they link to a different server than what we use.
   • Find that we do subscribe but the database supplier has not provided a link.

Get It! Waterloo will provide a more consistent and more complete approach for our UW users to get to articles in journals to which we subscribe.

Get It! Waterloo is a tool that will speed up your research process and increase its effectiveness. Get It! Waterloo enables you to connect from a research database directly to University of Waterloo Library's resources such as online full-text articles, or to title listings for non electronic / print journals, books or other library materials in the library catalogue.

1. Having found an article in a database, click on the "GetIt!" button
2. You get several choices. Usually, the topmost choice will be the one to choose, in this case taking you to:
3. The article online. While there may be intermediate steps here they are generally straightforward.

As of December 10, the Get It! Waterloo service has been activated for databases on the ABC-Clio, CSA, EiVillage, MathSciNet and Web of Science servers. Additional databases will be activated in the months to come.

Using Get It! Waterloo from databases.

A button incorporating the symbol will appear in those databases which have been activated. Look for it next to the brief citation or in the document record. Depending on the database, this button could look like:

or the text "Get It!@Waterloo"

Click on this button; a new window will open and the Get It! Waterloo menu will appear. The links that Get It! Waterloo provides are dynamic and context sensitive; that is, you will see different options for different citations.

• Links directly to the full text for the article.
  Note: in some cases you will be linked only to the journal's main page to a table of contents rather than directly to the specific article. The "linking results" will vary depending on the journal publisher.
• Links into Trellis, the Library's catalogue. This is especially useful if we have the journal in print rather than electronically.
• Download the citation into RefWorks

Clicking on any of these links will open a third window.

Additional services and options will be offered through the Get It! Waterloo menu at a later date.

To learn more about Get It! Waterloo service, read the Frequently Asked Questions .

For help using SFX, contact an Information Desk

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