Reusable Assets

FindText provides direct links to the online full text of an article or book (when available) for current students, faculty and staff, and retired faculty and staff. It also searches the library catalog for physical copies of journals and books, and provides a link to Interlibrary Loan if the print or electronic version is not available.

• The library purchases access to over 100,000 online journals and books, and makes access available to thousands of open access resources as well.
• Some of the purchased access is permanent and some is temporary. FindText tracks both and will give you the most up-to-date holdings for all online content.

• Some of the resources the library has purchased do not offer links directly to the article. We try to get you as close to the fulltext article as possible, but in some cases you may be taken to a table of contents screen for a journal title in which case you will need to browse to the issue and article you need.
• You may also be taken to a database search screen in which case you will have to search again for either the journal, article, or book title.

• Sometimes electronic fulltext is not available because the Libraries do not subscribe to every online journal or ebook or because some journals and books are not published online.
• If the Libraries only have the fulltext in print, FindText will take you to the library catalog with the item’s location. You can use our physical copies, or if not available, you can request them through Interlibrary Loan.

The University has a subscription to RefWorks, so it is the citation manager we provide the most support for. If you don’t use RefWorks, some other citation managers' browser plugins may work with the FindText page, you can manually create citations in your preferred citation manager, or you can export into RefWorks and then export from there into your citation manager.

• Google Scholar uses a FindText@Notre Dame text link rather than the FindText icon.
• You will see the FindText@Notre Dame link if you are on campus or if you follow these directions to enable FindText in Google Scholar.

• You must use our own PubMed link in order to see the FindText icon on PubMed search results.
• The FindText icon will appear in the top right corner of any record you select but it will not appear on the results list.

• For SciFinder Scholar, you will need to click on the "ChemPort" button. This will open a web browser window and take you to the ChemPort interface; look for the FindText link there.