The Web is a great resource. I am a professional librarian, with a deep appreciation for the books housed by the thousands of libraries in the U.S. and beyond. But I love searching the Web, both for personal use and as a professional researcher.
There is a downside, however. I often identify an article of interest on the Web, but am unable to view the full text.
The first thing I do in this situation is to search for the same article in the various online databases at my disposal. If you work for a corporation with a site license to some of these databases, you should search them to see if the article you want is available through the site license.
If you are an independent consultant, you may not have access to these databases directly. In that case, try your public library.
For example, a Google© search on “dibenzothiphene” turned up the following article:
Deep Desulfurization of Diesel Fuel by Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids.Preview By: Liu, D.; Gui, J.; Song, L.; Zhang, X.; Sun, Z.. Petroleum Science & Technology, Jun2008, Vol. 26 Issue 9, p973-982, 10p, 4 charts, 1 diagram, 3 graphs; DOI: 10.1080/10916460600695496; (AN 32745488)
Searching Google© on the article title turned up no free full text source of the article.
So I logged onto my Houston Public Library account, searched for the title in EbscoHost, and was able to locate and download the full text of the article, thanks to HPL’s site license with Ebsco.
Contact your local public library to see what sorts of things they offer their users.
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