Electronic resources

You’ve found just the article you’ve been looking for. Excitedly, you click the print icon and bolt to the front desk. As the workstudy pulls the still-warm sheet out of the print tray you see…

…one page of nothing!

So what went wrong?

Most scholarly articles are in the portable document format (or pdf) and don’t work like normal web pages. A special plugin lets you view them in your web browser; this plugin has its own printing button which you must use:

If you try to use the browser’s print button, you will not get the article, you will waste paper. There are other ways of printing from within the plugin as well, but this is the easiest.

Happy printing!