If you are using an online periodical index (such as Medline) when you find the article citation, and you want to retrieve the article right away:

In many cases this "get it!" button provides a short-cut to the full-text article online. In such cases, after clicking the button, you will see a link such as:

or:

etc.

Clicking such a link will lead you to the electronic version of the full article!

Another link you may see is:

Clicking such a link will take you into the library catalogue and look up the journal title for you (to see if U of T Libraries subscribes to the journal).

If you have previously found a citation (reference to an article), and now you want to retrieve the actual article:

Your first stop should be our Current dentistry-related journals web page, to see if U of T currently subscribes to this journal, and whether we have it in print, or as an e-journal (electronic journal), or both.

If it's a print journal, just go to the shelves.

If it's an e-journal, we provide a link directly to it, and from there you can easily navigate to the full-text article.

EXAMPLE: Say you were looking for the article "One-year evaluation of an Ormocer restorative-a multipractice clinical trial" which appeared in: Clinical Oral Investigations. 7(1):20-6, 2003 Mar. You would look for the journal title under "C" in the Current dentistry-related journals web page and find: After clicking on the e-journal link, you would see the U of T Libraries entrance page for this e-journal: You would click "Connect Now", and then you would see a list of issues of Clinical Oral Investigations: You would click the link to volume 7, issue no. 1 (March 2003), and then you would see the table of contents for that issue: You would scan it for your page numbers and article title, and once you spotted your article, you would click the link to view the full-text article.

If the journal isn't listed on the Current dentistry-related journals web page:

• If it's an older dental journal, check the shelves, and if you still don't find it, please ask for help at the Dental Library Desk.
• If it's a non-dental journal, if you're lucky U of T will have an electronic subscription (which will save you the walk to another library on campus). Look up the journal title (NOT the article title) in All e-journals, which links to thousands of e-journals. But many journals (especially older issues) are only available in print. You can look them up in the Library Catalogue (search by Periodical Title), and then walk over to the U of T library that owns the journal (such as Gerstein or Robarts).

TIP: For a fast route to key resources, go to the Dental Library home page and look in the Quick links

For more information about journals, see our web page about Journals. And don't hesitate to ask us for help!