In order to take full advantage of links to articles in PubMed, it is necessary to access PubMed from the library’s website at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu.
A link to PubMed can be found in the Databases pull-down section of the The Libraries home page, or in the Library Search, Databases section of the page. Although it can be tempting to access PubMed by going directly to its address, http://pubmed.gov, this will bypass the open url linking that librarians have set up for PubMed.
PubMed should be accessed from the library website in order to link to current subscriptions.
When accessing PubMed from The Libraries’ website, you will see the blue HSCLink button:
The HSCLink button will either open an article for which the library subscribes for the Health Science Center, or will provide information about how to obtain an article if the library does not have access. This may include populating an interlibrary loan form to obtain the article from another library.
For more information about using links in PubMed, contact AskALibrarian@uthscsa.edu or call Information Services at 567-2450.
Tags: December 2012
