When search­ing for research arti­cles online, I often find that the arti­cle is unavail­able unless I go through the Monash library web­site, espe­cially when work­ing from home. Here are two solu­tions to the problem

1. Within Google scholar, go to “Scholar pref­er­ences” and under library links search for “Monash”. Tick the entry “Monash Uni­ver­sity — Check for full text”. Then save your pref­er­ences (but­ton at bot­tom of page). Next time you do a Google scholar search, a link labelled “Check for full text” will appear beside each entry. Click it and you will be able to eas­ily go straight to the arti­cle after enter­ing your Monash user­name and password.
2. Drag the fol­low­ing book­mark to your book­marks tool­bar: Monash ezproxy.
   Then when­ever you are on a journal’s web­site and want to down­load an arti­cle, click the book­mark and it will ask for your Monash user­name and password.

Of course, this only works for Monash stu­dents and staff. But other read­ers should be able to adapt the above pro­ce­dures for other uni­ver­si­ties.

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• Search­ing the research literature
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• Sav­ing web pages for later reading