Full Text

The complete electronic text of an article is called the full text. Some databases, like Project MUSE provide entire articles online for ALL its citations, while others such as EBSCOhost and the ProQuest Diversity Databases provide entire articles online to most but NOT all of their citations.  You will know full text is available when you see listed below the citation, HTML Full Text (the text is on a web page) and/or PDF Full Text (the text is an image of the original pages of the periodical, itself).

What if there are pictures or graphs with the article that you want to see?

To find pictures originally published with the article, if the article is in PDF format, the pictures will be embedded in the article itself.  If the article is in HTML format, the picture may not be available due to copyright restrictions (such as in National Geographic, Time and Newsweek magazines).  You will then need to get the print copy from the library.