How to download a paper from an electronic journal

Assuming you’re on the A-Z list of journals

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

For example, the journal Heart

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

Alternatively,

• Journal of allied health ProQuest , Apr 2002 - , All NHS Athens

In this second example the supplier is Proquest.

Select the supplier of the journal you wish to read from the list below to see a short presentation showing how to

download• BMJ• EBSCO• Highwire• Internurse• JAMA• Nature

• Pleasenote that instructions for suppliers O – Z can be found in the second presentation

A BMJ title: Journal of clinical pathology

Clicking on the title of this journal takes you to the

Athens login screen

Enter your Athens details and click Login

A list of available issues appears and the information at

the top right of the screen shows that you’ve logged in

successfully

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

The contents appear and you can select the paper you want

to download

In glorious PDF for convenient printing…

EBSCO

Emergency medicine Australasia

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. Click on the title of the journal to proceed.

Enter your Athens details and click Login

Click on the publication year of your paper (2011 in my

example)

Select the appropriate issue

The issue downloads…

Once you’ve found the paper you want click on PDF to

download it

Ready to print…

Highwire

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. Click on the title of the journal to proceed.

Highwire redirects the link to the journal’s homepage

Click on PAST ISSUES

Select the year your paper was published in

Then select the appropriate issue

Find the right paper…

And after a short wait…

Internurse: e.g. Journal of wound care

Clicking on the title of this journal takes you to the

Athens login screen

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

appears

Select the paper you want…

And download it.

JAMA

Archives of dermatology

Note that the holdings of this title only run from 2008 to 2011. You will not be able to download articles free of charge that were published outside this date range.

Click on SIGN IN

Select Sign in via Athens

Enter your account details and click Login

The website should have recognised your Athens ID.

Click on All Issues

Make sure you the year you require is one to which we

have full-text access

Select the issue…

Select the article you wish to read and click on PDF

The article should download.

Nature. We currently only purchase one title from this

supplier: Eye

Click on Login

Scroll down to find the link to the Athens Login…

here…

Enter your Athens details

There is no message to say you’ve been recognised…

Click on Archive

Select the issue you want

Find the article you’re looking for, and

Download it (select PDF if you wish to print it out)