About Primo: Tips and Techniques

Need to Find Peer-Reviewed Literature?

Do a search for your topic, and then on the list of articles found by your search, open the Availability menu on the left of the screen and choose Peer-reviewed Journals. Be aware that these journals may contain content like book reviews and letters to the editor, which are not peer-reviewed. More info about peer-reviewed literature.

When Linking to an Article Doesn't Work

Primo works by identifying useful articles, and then links to the articles in our research databases.

Occasionally, the linking fails to work, or instead of going directly to the article you get a list of possibly matching articles. This often happens because the item Primo found is actually a section within a longer article, which can throw off the coordination between the different systems.

If you are unable to get to the article:

1. Search the Database Directly
   Go to the database Primo was linking to (e.g., EBSCOhost) and run a search using a few words from the article’s title and topic. This often leads you to the correct article.
2. Browse the Publication
   If searching by keyword doesn’t work, try finding the magazine or journal issue the article came from:
   • Use the database’s “Publications” search (e.g., EBSCOhost’s Publications Authority or ProQuest’s Publications link).
   • Search for the journal or magazine title. When you find it, you should see a list of publication years that open lists of individual issues.
   • Use the article information from Primo (date of publication, volume/issue number, page numbers) to find the issue where the article was supposed to have appeared.
   • Open the issue and look for the article manually. You may have to open individual item records to look for a matching page number.
3. Contact Us
   We can try to track down the article for you, and we might be able to figure out what went wrong and fix it.

Note — Due to inaccuracies in information Primo has gathered about publications and database coverage, it may occasionally erroneously say that an articles is available when it really isn't.