PubMed: Retrieving full text

You can find full text a variety of ways through PubMed.  Default searches look for all articles, regardless of whether or not full text is available.

You can limit to full text (free or all; more on "all" later) like this:

Here's a citation with free full text; note you have 2 places you can go to find the full text (icons on the top right side of the screenshot):

If you limit to Full Text, you'll also see links (usually to publishers' websites) that may provide full text for a fee.

For example, here's an icon linking to a publisher's website:

You'll also find links from Wiley, Elsevier, and other scholarly publishers.  Clicking on the link will typically take you t the abstract for the article AND THIS:

Don't buy the article!  Use Bethel's interlibrary loan service to request the article (for free!):

Article request form

Finally, you may see a link that looks like this:   

Clicking on this will take you to full text provided by the library's subscription to EBSCOhost.  It will

--link you to free full text on the web (just like PubMed)

--link you to additionally text provided exclusively to EBSCOhost customers; you may be able to find full text for free through EBSCO that PubMed publishers will make you pay for.