Frequently Asked Questions

I found an article on a website but I used all my free views and I cannot find it anywhere else. How do I access it?

Often, news publications have separate subscription options - one for institutions which only covers their print/journal publications and an individual subscription which may or may not cover both a website/blog subscription AND a print/journal subscription. Most will not sell subscriptions to institutions for their online only content, i.e. the content published on their website/blog.

However, some publish most if not all of this content in both places but they will publish it under different titles. The website/blog content will get "Title A" and then when they publish it in their print/journal they will change the title to "Title B." This makes it difficult to find out if the HJF actually has access to something you find online but are prevented from viewing due to a "pay wall", which requires an active subscription to view it. One way to address this is by searching the journal for a short sentence or phrase that contains unique language once you are already inside that journal in an HJF database. Follow the instructions below to see how it is done.

1. Go to the HJF Full Text Finder.
2. Search for the title of the journal, magazine, or news source you originally found the article on.
3. If the HJF has it, it will appear in the search results. Click it and see what databases offer which date coverage. Find a database that offers the date coverages that cover the date your article was published during. Click into that database.
4. You should now see a list of issues available. They will look slightly different in each database, but you should be able to either scroll down and select the date or to "Search Entire Journal" or "Search within Results." This is the easier option.
5. Click "Search within Results" and paste in a unique phrase you could see in the free preview. If you do not see enough on the free preview to get a unique phrase, try the author and a word or two from the title that would make up the main point of the article.
6. If the article got a new title for the print/journal publication, it should still be by the same author and contain the same content so you should get a result.