SFX

What is SFX?

SFX is a new feature that allows you to navigate more easily among the electronic resources that you find in LINCCWeb.

SFX provides direct links from a citation in a database to full-text of an article (when available). So if you find a citation in one database, but there’s no full-text version of the article, click the SFX link to see if another database has the full-text of that article.

SFX will also search library holdings for a book or journal in the citation, so you can see if your library owns a particular book or has a particular journal in print format.

Note: SFX is not an acronym, but a term used in the motion picture industry that refers to special effects. It has been borrowed for similar meaning in other fields.

• Why Use SFX?
• Why are there multiple Browser Windows?
• Why don't I see the Browser Window appear?
• SFX Services for this record:
• Problems May Occur
• Using SFX From Off Campus
• Exit SFX

Why Use?

1. The goal of SFX is to link you directly from a database citation to the full text of the article, if full-text for that article is available in another database to which SCC LRC has a subscription. There will be times when SFX is unable to do so because of the way a particular publisher has structured its web site. When this happens, SFX will get you as close to the full text as possible by linking to the Table of Contents of the journal or a database home page.
2. SFX also links you to the SCC LRC LINCC Online Catalog so that you can check to see if SCC LRC owns the item. If we don't and the full-text is not available online, you may attempt to locate it from a library that subscribes to the journal or request it through Interlibrary Loan.
3. A Web search using the key words from the citation title is also included.

Browser Windows

1. Clicking SFX opens another browser window to display the SFX Menu.
2. When you click on one of the links listed in the SFX menu, a third browser window opens.
3. Each window will stay open until you close it.
4. Sometimes a window will open under a window that is already open. On the bottom of your computer screen, you will see multiple buttons representing the different windows that are open. Clicking on a button will bring up the corresponding window.
5. When finished with a window, click the "x" in the upper right corner of the window to close it and return to SFX.
6. Be careful to close only your SFX windows and not your (original) search window.

SFX Services for this record

1. Locate SFX Services for record
2. The Title & Source for your article are given.
   For Example:
   Title: The difference between playing games with & without the computer: A preliminary view.
   Source: The Journal of psychology [0022-3980] Antonietti
   yr: 2003 vol: 137 iss: 2 pg: 133

View Full text available via

1. You MUST see: View Full text available via, for the full-text for your article to be currently available in the database listed. For Example: EBSCO Academic Search Premier
2. Note: Just because the article you seek is not full-text, that doesn't mean that older issues of the journal will not be. A publisher restriction (embargo) may exist. For Example: for the journal, Addiction Research and Theory Full Text: 01/01/2001 through present (with a delay of 6 Months due to publisher restriction).
3. The year, volume, and, issue are given to remind you of the information needed to locate the full text for your article.
4. For example:year:2003  volume:137  issue:2   start page: 133
5. Click View Full text available via. Wait while the information is located.
6. about: blank in the Internet Explorer address bar
7. If you are using Internet Explorer, "about: blank," is shown in the Internet Explorer address bar while the search is taking place. Once results are displayed, "about: blank" goes away.
8. If you are taken directly to the full-text, click HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text and NOT SFX.
9. SFX will take you as close as possible to the full text. If you are taken to the Publication Overview for "A Journal Title," locate View Issue. Click the year, and then the issue, then the full-text link for the article you want. You could also be taken to the table of contents or the database home page.
10. If you do NOT go to the Full Text, one of these problems has occurred.
11. When finished, click the "x" in the upper right corner of the window to close it and return to "SFX Services for this record."

Publication Overview from

1. If you see: Publication Overview from instead of View Full text available via, full-text for your article is not currently available.
2. Note: Just because the article you seek is not full-text, that doesn't mean that articles in older issues of the journal will not be. A publisher restriction (embargo) may exist. If Full Text dates of coverage are listed for that journal, other issues of the journal earlier than the restriction date will be available.
3. When finished, click the "x" in the upper right corner of the LINCCSearch window to close it and return to "SFX Services for this record."

Does my library own this journal?

Checks LINCC Catalog using ISSN number of the journal. If not owned by SCC, try other libraries or ILL.

View abstract available in...Will NOT lead to any full-text.

Search for Information Related to this Title (or modify your search criteria) via a Web Search Engine to see if the article was reprinted on the web.

1. Look for an online version of your article. For Example, using "Google." If you were looking for "New Relief for Road Warriors" published in Inc magazine, it would appear like this on the Google Results page:
   Inc.com - New Relief for Road Warriors
   ... New Relief for Road Warriors. Web-based expense-reporting systems let you log on from the road & record expenses as you go. From: Inc. ...
   www.inc.com/partners/techstation/articles/25508.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
2. If you locate the article, click the link to view it.
3. You can do a web search on your topic from this interface. Bear in mind that your database search is timed. You may want to finish using the Academic Search Premier database before proceeding in another direction.

Problems May Occur

1. Publisher restriction may exist may embargo (delay) the publishing of full-text for a prescribed period. For Example: For the journal, Addiction Research & Theory. Full Text: 01/01/2001 through present (with a delay of 6 Months due to publisher restriction).
2. Some journals may offer full text for only a selection rather than all of the articles within a specific issue. Therefore a requested full text article may not be listed on the table of contents.
3. There is sometimes a delay of several weeks in linking the most recent full text articles to their corresponding citations in abstract & index databases.
4. A link may be out-of-date because a publisher has made changes to its site.
5. A link may lead to the full text of a different article in another database if data entry errors occur in the citation.
6. If you get a blank page, a "bad URL", an "Error 404", or some other "not found" message,
   a. the publisher may not yet have loaded the full text yet.
   b. Sometimes the links are wrong.

Using SFX From Off Campus

1. Your browser must be able to accept cookies.
2. Check to see that Javascript is enabled in your web browser. The SFX buttons will not appear if Javascript is disabled.
3. Software which turns off pop-up ads turns off SFX as well since SFX uses a pop-up window. If you have such software installed on your computer, you will need to turn it off in order to see the SFX menu.

Exit SFX

• When finished with SFX, click the "x" in the upper right corner of the SFX window to close it.

Did you know?

SCC's Library has one of the most extensive collections of literature and educational materials in Seminole County.