Tracking Stuff Down: Essential Services
Know what we can get for you
We'll make a PDF of any journal article that's not available online or up to two chapters from any book in print. Turnaround time is 4 days (and often less).
If Harvard doesn't have a copy available, we can often get one for you from a partner library. Some articles arrive within a few hours, and many books within a week.
Finding Full Text
Tools and tricks to get free articles
- Create a Harvard Library Bookmark
- Change your Google Scholar settings
- Install the LibKey Nomad browser plugin, then set your organization to "Harvard University"
Not sure if we've actually got it?
Ask us--we can usually find the needle in an information haystack!
Keeping Things Organized with Zotero
Zotero is a free, open-source citation management tool. Zotero make the process of collecting and organizing citations, incorporating them into your paper, and creating a bibliography or works cited page almost entirely stress-free!
It's worth the small investment of time to learn Zotero. A good guide, produced by Harvard librarians, is available here: http://guides.library.harvard.edu/zotero.
