How to download a paper from an electronic journal

1. How to download a paper from an electronic journal Assuming you’re on the A-Z list of journals

2. The A-Z list gives you basic information about each journal

3. For example, the journal Heart

4. This information includes the name of the supplier • Heart - BMJ , Oct 1997 - , All NHS Athens In the case of Heart the supplier is the BMJ group

5. Alternatively, • Journal of allied health ProQuest , Apr 2002 - , All NHS Athens In this second example the supplier is Proquest.

6. Select the supplier of the journal you wish to read from the list below to see a short presentation showing how to download • BMJ • Clinical Key • EBSCO • Highwire • Internurse • JAMA • Nature • Ovid • Proquest • Sage • Science Direct • Springer • Wiley

7. A BMJ title: Journal of clinical pathology

8. Clicking on the title of this journal takes you to the Athens login screen

9. Enter your Athens details and click Login

10. A list of available issues appears and the information at the top right of the screen shows that you’ve logged in successfully

11. Select the issue you want to view (I’ve chosen June 2013)

12. The contents appear and you can select the paper you want to download

13. In glorious PDF for convenient printing…

14. Click here to return to supplier menu • Click here for the next supplier • Press Esc key to exit

15. A Clinical Key title

16. Log in here

17. Select the volume and issue you want

18. …and download the paper you require

19. Click here to return to supplier menu • Click here for the next supplier • Press esc to exit

20. EBSCO

21. Emergency medicine Australasia Note that there is a twelve month embargo period for this tile. This means that only issues that are at least twelve months old are available to download from

22. Enter your Athens details and click Login

23. Click on the publication year of your paper (2004 in my example)

24. Select the appropriate issue

25. The issue downloads…

26. Once you’ve found the paper you want click on PDF to download it

27. Ready to print…

28. Click here to return to supplier menu • Click here for the next supplier • Press esc to exit

29. Highwire

30. Anesthesia and analgesia Note that this journal has a one year embargo period. This means that only issues that are more than twelve months old are available for download. (However, there are more issues from this title available from OVID, our alternative supplier.) Click on the title of the journal to proceed.

31. Highwire redirects the link to the journal’s homepage

32. Click on PAST ISSUES

33. Select the year your paper was published in

34. Then select the appropriate issue

35. Find the right paper…

36. And after a short wait…

37. Click here to return to supplier menu • Click here for the next supplier • Press esc to exit

38. Internurse: e.g. Journal of wound care

39. Clicking on the title of this journal takes you to the Athens login screen

40. Now you’ve been recognised simply select the issue you’re looking for from the list that appears

41. Select the paper you want…

42. And download it.

43. Click here to return to supplier menu • Click here for the next supplier • Press esc to exit

44. JAMA

45. Archives of dermatology Note that the holdings of this title only run from 2008 to 2013. You will not be able to download articles free of charge that were published outside this date range.

46. Click on SIGN IN

47. Select Sign in via Athens

48. Enter your account details and click Login

49. The website should have recognised your Athens ID. Click on All Issues

50. Make sure you the year you require is one to which we have full-text access