Search 1Search to find books, online scholarly articles or newspaper articles that OSU subscribes to or that we can borrow for you for free.
A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Find out how to set your preferences in Google Scholar, so you can use OSU Libraries subscriptions to get free access to content that is not free on the web:
OSU Libraries is piloting a subscription to some AI literature search tools like Scite, and provides a critical review and recommendations about several other free AI literature research tools. To see the comparison of current AI literature research tools OSU Libraries subscribes to along with several free tools visit this Tool Comparison Guide.
Look for the 
button to open the full article.
Options for getting to the PDF will open in a new window. Sometimes the link will take you to the journal, not the individual article. Use the citation information for the article to get to the right year, volume and issue of the journal.
If the library doesn't have it, request the article for free from Interlibrary Loan. On average, articles arrive digitally within one business day.
Adding LibKey Nomad to your preferred browser helps you go directly from the 
button (or link with this text) in search tools (e.g., databases, Google Scholar) to a page where you can download the article PDF (when OSU Libraries has paid or free access to the article). See the LibKey Nomad page image below to see where to grab the article PDF.
Additionally, when you are searching for sources on the web and LibKey Nomad is installed in your browser, you may see buttons like these that will help you access or request the full text of articles:
