[Eril-l] Bulk search/Full Text find

Tue Jun 10 06:05:09 PDT 2025

I can't imagine how there could be a "batch" way given that it's entirely possible that some will require ILL requests, not to mention that most full-text platforms that you likely have licensed don't have any kind of "api" to download full text in any automated fashion even if her list includes DOIs.  That's actually a cool idea, but it doesn't exist yet.

She needs to pay a research/teaching assistant to go through the list and retrieve/request them all.

The best you could do with EBSCO holdings management is combine the spreadsheet with a HLM holdings dump to at least identify the URLs to go to for the ones you will likely have rights to.
If you maintain your holdings in EBSCO "HLM" I could give you some advice off list on how to actually do that.

I don't know Alma at all so I'll leave it to someone else who does to check what it might have to offer in that regard.

One other thought that might put the absurdity of the request in perspective: if the patron has a big budget, they could probably contact a service like Article Galaxy Scholar to do this for her, but she'd be paying a very large price when you probably have already paid for at least some of the articles, because they'd charge you full price for every one.

And finally, if legality is not a concern, and she does have DOIs, someone could write a screenscraping program that requests them all from an illegal platform like Scihub. Even then you aren't guaranteed to get all of them, but probably most. I of course as a law-abiding librarian do not recommend that avenue, just saying that it's a technical possibility.

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Hi all.,

My colleague has completely stumped me. I have a colleague who is helping a faculty member with a systematic review. She has an excel file of citations (mostly from Ebsco databases)  and is trying to figure out how to get the full text of them without having to search each individually. We have Alma/Primo if anyone knows any tricks for doing it in there or in Ebsco.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Theresa

Theresa Carlson

Head, Content and Delivery Services

Cline Library, Northern Arizona University

928-523-6849

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