PubMed: The Missing (Info)Link
If you use PubMed then it is to your advantage to link to PubMed from Hardin’s site or to use this special web address: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/nlm/pubmed.
Why? By using the University Libraries’ PubMed web address you will have access to InfoLink. InfoLink will take you to the full-text article, if the University Libraries subscribes, and link you directly to the InfoHawk Library Catalog record when a print copy is available.
Many PubMed records already include a publisher icon which links to the article’s full-text if the library subscribes. However, the library has access to additional full-text journals through different vendors than what these PubMed icons indicate.
Some of the databases that currently do not have publisher icons as part of the PubMed record include MD Consult, EBSCOhost, and Health Reference Center. These databases include hundreds of full-text journals not available elsewhere. If you are not using PubMed with InfoLink you may be wasting valuable time tracking down these journals when a simple click on the InfoLink button would tell you everything you need to know.
