Full-Text Articles

Some articles are available directly online. How do you get them?

Let's say you've come across the "chameleon effect" in your social psychology text and you want to learn more. The book describes the effect as the tendency for people to unintentionally mimic the nonverbal behavior of others, and gives "(Chartrand & Bargh, 1999)" as the citation. How would you find this article?

Go back to PsycINFO on EBSCOhost and hit the "New Search" button in the navigation bar at the top to get rid of fluoxetine and suicide.

Enter "chameleon effect" in Select a Field (optional) (this will search for the phrase anywhere in the citation, including the abstract. If you didn't open a new search window, be sure you don't still have "suicide" as the second search term from before).

Enter "Chartrand" in AU Author

Enter "1999" in DT Date_of_Publication

Click Search

One of your results should be:

Rejoice and be glad, because those labels on the bottom indicate that you can immediately download this very article. Hallelujah!!

Which version should you download? PDF or HTML?

• PDF Full Text downloads more slowly but gives you picture-perfect print-outs of the article, as if you had photocopied them right out of the journal. Use this if you're going to print the article or if you want to save the article to read later.
• HTML Full Text downloads faster but doesn't print out nicely. Use it when you don't plan to print (e.g., you're just checking a finding) or when you're using a slow Internet connection. This icon is a picture of a piece of paper with a camera in the lower right corner. The camera indicates that the file includes pictures of any figures or tables that were in the article. You may occasionally get an icon that is just a piece of paper with no camera. Watch out for those because they may be missing figures or tables (which can be very important), although they may just be articles that don't have any figures or tables.

Go ahead and look at each version to see the difference.