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SFXWhat is SFX?SFX is a feature that allows you to navigate more easily among the electronic resources that you find in LINCCWeb.
SFX provides direct links from a citation in a database to full text of an article (when available). If you find a citation in one database, but there is no full-text version of the article available, you can click the SFX link to see if another database offers the full text.
SFX will also search library holdings for a book or journal in the citation, so you can see if your library owns a particular book or has a particular journal in print format.
Note: SFX is not an acronym, but a term used to describe OpenURL software for accessing related materials in library online catalogs. It has been borrowed for similar meaning in other fields as well. Why Use SFX?- The goal of SFX is to link you directly from a database citation to the full text of the article, if the full-text is available in another database to which Seminole State LRC subscribes. At times, SFX will not be able to accomplish this goal because of the way a particular publisher has structured its Web site. When this happens, SFX will get you as close to the full text as possible by linking to a journal's table of contents or a database's home page.
- SFX also links you to the Seminole State LRC LINCC Online Catalog so that you can see whether Seminole State owns the item. If we do not own the item, and the full text is not available online, you may attempt to locate it from a library that subscribes to the journal or request it through interlibrary loan.
- A Web search using the key words from the citation title is also included.
Browser Windows- After clicking SFX, the menu will open in another browser window.
- When you click on a link listed in the SFX menu, a third browser window will open.
- Each window will stay open until you close it.
- Sometimes, a new window will open up under a window that is already open. On the bottom of your computer screen, you will see multiple buttons representing all of the windows that are open on your computer. You can bring up a specific window by clicking the corresponding button at the bottom of the screen.
- When finished with a window, click the "X" in the upper-right corner to close it and return to SFX.
- Be careful to close only your SFX windows and not the original search window.
SFX Services For This Record- Locate SFX Services for this Record
- The title and source for your article are given. For example:
- Title: The Difference Between Playing Games With and Without the Computer: A Preliminary View
- Source: The Journal of Psychology [0022-3980] Antonietti
- Year: 2003; Volume: 137; Issue: 2; Start Page: 133
View Full Text Available Via- If the full text of your article is available in the database listed, you will see "View full text available via."
- Example: EBSCO Academic Search Premier
- Note: Just because the article you seek is not full text, it does not mean that older issues of the journal will not be. A publisher restriction (embargo) may exist.
- Example: Addiction Research and Theory Full Text: 01/01/2001 through present (with a delay of six months due to publisher restriction).
- The year, volume and issue are given to remind you of the information needed to locate the full text for your article.
- Example: Year:2003; Volume:137; Issue:2; Start Page: 133
- Click "View full text available via." Wait while the information is located.
- If you are using Internet Explorer, "about: blank" will be shown in the Web address bar while the search is taking place. This will go away once your results are displayed.
- If you are taken directly to the full text, click HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text (not SFX).
- SFX will take you as close as possible to the full text.
- If you are taken to the Publication Overview for a journal title: Locate the View Issue option; click the year, issue and full-text link for the article you want.
- You may also be taken to the table of contents or the database home page.
- If you do not go to the full text, one of these problems has occurred.
- When finished, click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the window to close it and return to SFX Services for this Record.
Publication Overview From- If you see "Publication overview from" instead of "View full text available via," full text for your article is not currently available.
- Note: Just because the article you seek is not full text, it does not mean that older issues of the journal will not be. A publisher restriction (embargo) may exist. If full text dates of coverage are listed for a journal, it means that issues published before the restriction date will still be available.
- When finished, click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the LINCCSearch window to close it and return to SFX Services for this Record."
Does My Library Own This Journal?This feature checks the LINCC Catalog using the ISSN number of the journal. If it is not owned by Seminole State, try other libraries or ILL. "View abstract available in" will not lead to any full-text articles. Search for Information Related to this Title (or modify your search criteria) Via a Web Search Engine to See if the Article was Reprinted on the Web- Look for an online version of your article. For example, if you were using Google to search for New Relief for Road Warriors published in Inc magazine, it would appear like this on the search results page:
- "... New Relief for Road Warriors. Web-based expense-reporting systems let you log on from the road and record expenses as you go. From: Inc. ..."
- If you locate the article, click the link to view it.
- You can conduct a Web search on your topic from this interface. Bear in mind that your database search is timed. You may want to finish using the Academic Search Premier database before proceeding in another direction.
Problems That May Occur- Publisher restriction may embargo (delay) the publishing of full-text articles for a prescribed period.
- Example: Addiction Research and Theory journal. Full Text: 01/01/2001 through present (with a delay of six months due to publisher restriction).
- Some journals may offer full text for only a selection, rather than all of the articles, within a specific issue. Therefore, a requested full-text article may not be listed on the table of contents.
- Sometimes, there is a several-week delay in linking the most recent full-text articles to their corresponding citations in abstract and index databases.
- A link may be out of date because a publisher has made changes to its site.
- A link may lead to the full text of a different article in another database if data entry errors occur in the citation.
- You may get a "Bad URL," "Error 404," or other "Not Found" message. If this occurs:
- The publisher may not have loaded the full text yet.
- The link may be wrong.
Accessing SFX From Off-Campus- Make sure your browser is able to accept cookies.
- Check to see that Javascript is enabled in your browser. The SFX buttons will not appear if Javascript is disabled.
- Turn off pop-up-blocker software. SFX uses a pop-up window system, and you will not be able to access it if your pop-up-blocker is not disabled.
Exiting SFX- When finished with SFX, click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the SFX window to close it.
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