Q. How do I find a specific journal article for which I have some citation information?

If you have any citation information, or the DOI or PMID of the article:

Enter it into Citation Linker (requires access.caltech credentials) and if the article can be found, it will be go directly to the article if we have access to it. If we do not, it will display a list of options for accessing the article, including DocuServe, or other open-access versions that may be available.

Alternatively, enter the information you do have into a database like Web of Science or Google Scholar (see this FAQ for information on linking to Get It @ Caltech) and when you've found the article, click the Get It @ Caltech button to see if we have online access.

If you want to check if Caltech subscribes to a particular journal, or if Citation Linker does not find full-text access:

Click on Journals from the Library homepage, enter the journal name to see whether we have a subscription to the journal and what years we have access to online.

If it's an older article and we don't have online access, check the Library catalog for the journal name. We have some journals still in print. You can check out the print journal, or request a scan of an article through DocuServe.

If we don't have either online access or a print copy, request an article via DocuServe (our Interlibrary Loan service).