1. Before using Onesearch: proxy and authentication

1.2. Search of a resource of which bibliographical references are known: journal articles

Searching for a journal article

Let's look for an article of which we know journal title, author and article title and year of publication. 

1- an article which is accessible and downloadable online (in OneSearch/Google Scholar/Scopus)

Sara Bovina, Dario Frascari, Alessandro Ragini, Francesco Avolio, GianNicola Scarcella, Davide Pinelli,
Development of a continuous-flow anaerobic co-digestion process of olive mill wastewater and municipal sewage sludge in Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 96(2), pp. 532-543.

  • Insert in Onesearch one of the auhors name and some keywords
  • Check the results list and identify the article you are looking for 
  • Click on  "online access"  and you will be directed to the article, on the platform that makes it available 
  • Download the pdf
  • If the search has no results, it means that the library does not have online access to that journal.
  • Launch a new search with the title of the journal and not the one of the article.
  • If the search produces results, go to point 2.
  • If you cannot find the title, follow the instructions in point 3. 

2- an article in paper format from a journal owned by our libraries

Prove di resistenza del legno di frassino ossifilo all'attacco di "Hesperophanes cinereus" (Villers) in Monti e Boschi, (2002), 1, pp. 27-31. 

Thanks to the citation you can know that the article has been published on the issue n. 1 of 2002 . So you will follow these instructions: 

  • Set the search mask to the search mode "books and journals".
  • Type the title, or someof its keywords, of the journal.
  • Identify the right journal and click on "available in..." on the library of interest
  • Check the presence of the year that I need
  • Take note of its location (in this case R.IT.147)
  • Communicate title, location and year to the library staff for consulting it in the library
  • Alternatively, click on the year of your interest and then on the option "digitize article" to ask the library for a scan of the article, which will be delivered to your institutional mailbox.

 3- an article available neither in the library nor online, to be requested to another external library (ILL-DD)

Bacterial blight of kiwifruit in Annals of applied biology, 112(1988), pp. 91-105 

  • After verifying that the article is not owned by the library (according to the first two steps indicated in the previous paragraph), you can use the document delivery service by clicking on the corresponding tab on OneSearch homepage
  • The library receives the request and will deliver the article to your institutional mailbox after a few days. The service is generally free; if the service requires a fee, the library always asks for user's authorization before proceeding. 
  • For more information on ILL-DD services review Module 3.