In order to understand the results of your search, it helps to understand the
basic anatomy of an article.
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Citation
The citation is the basic information about an article:
author, date, title, journal name, volume, page numbers.
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Always copy the complete citation, including how you found
it. You never know when you may need to retrieve it again.
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Abstract
The abstract is a descriptive paragraph about the article (often written
by the author). |
Reading an abstract is a good way of deciding whether or
not an article is relevant to your research.
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Full Text
Full text is the complete text of an article, but there is a distinction:
full text can leave out graphic materials such as pictures, graphs,
and figures. |
Sources of full text:
- online databases
- the Library's print and microform holdings
- Interlibrary Loan
- local area libraries
- the public World Wide Web
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