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Find It -- the University Libraries Linking Service

Users of many of the University Libraries’ bibliographic citation indexes, including the OVID databases, PubMed, VetCD, and Web of Science, are now able to use a new article access service implemented by the Libraries. Find It, the University Libraries Linking Service, allows library users to quickly link from a bibliographic citation in an index to a pop-up menu of options for accessing that article or document. Depending on the article, access options may include:

- a direct link to the electronic full text document (or in some cases to a journal's homepage)
- a link to the Libraries' print and electronic holdings in MNCAT, our catalog

in the absence of Libraries' holdings, the option to request the article through Interlibrary Loan. When you log in, the ILL form will be pre-populated with your personal information and with the citation information, meaning you won’t have to type in that info yourself!

Library users will be able to use this new service whenever they see the find it standard button button, or a similar text link, in a bibliographic index citation. The appearance of the button will vary somewhat, according to the space allowed by different database providers. For example, the Find It button in PubMed appears as: finditbuttonpubmed.jpeg

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