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SFX provides faster access to full-text journal articles online
With a new software product called SFX (an acronym for "special effects"), Northwestern researchers can find the full text of articles that exist in University Library's electronic environment, regardless of where those articles are located.
SFX software, through a technology known as OpenURL, allows the Northwestern researcher to search within one database, retrieve a relevant article citation, and then, if there is no full text available in that database, link across to another database or provider of the full text by clicking on "Find it @ NU."
To read a more in-depth article on SFX (in PDF version), go to http://www.library.northwestern.edu/librarybriefings/sfx.pdf.