We've finally arrived at step 5 of the research process: retrieving your chosen resource. (Or, in layman's terms: turning that database record into an article you can actually read!)
If your article is in full text in Academic Search Premier, then it will be available to read on-screen or attached to the database record as a PDF. That's it -- you've retrieved it and you're done.
Here is what full text availability will look like in most of our databases:
Academic Search Premier is partially full-text: you'll find lots of records with PDF attachments, but not every article will be right there. You may be tempted to abandon it if a full-text option doesn't appear in your search results. However, just because one database doesn't have your article in full-text doesn't mean it's not available in another database!
So how do you check if it is?
Two more tips for article retrieval: