Accessing full text is the step from finding a result to actually reading it. Look for “full text”, “PDF”, or “available online” links on a record, and use the “available online” facet to show only items you can open right now. FRELIP leans heavily on open access, so a great deal is free to read.

It’s a familiar frustration: you find the perfect article… and hit a paywall. This lesson is about avoiding that wall as much as possible — and FRELIP is built to help, because its mission is open access for people who can’t rely on expensive subscriptions.

Getting to the document

  • Look for the link — on a record, “Full text”, “PDF”, or “Access online” takes you straight there.
  • Filter to what you can read — the “available online” facet hides anything you can’t open immediately.
  • Prefer open access — OA articles are free to read in full, no login, no payment.
  • If you hit a wall — search the article’s title for an open version elsewhere, or ask a librarian.
Skip the wall from the start
Doing a literature review with limited budget, you tick the “available online” facet before you even read the results. Now every item on the list is one you can actually open and read today — no dead ends, no paywalls. A single filter reshaped the whole session around what’s genuinely within reach.

Open access changes the game

For researchers without a wealthy institution behind them, open access isn’t a nicety — it’s the difference between reading the research and being shut out. Learning to filter for it, and to recognise OA links, is a genuinely empowering skill.

🔗 Try it on FRELIP: search.frelip.org — filter results to "available online"

When a search is one you’ll want to run again, you can save it — and even be alerted to new results. On to Creating Saved Searches.

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