To search for articles on a topic you will use the Libraries' ELibrary system, which links to all of the Libraries' electonic collections.

Within ELibrary, you will search periodical databases to find articles by topic.

Periodical databases are essentially collections of individual articles, or article citations, within thousands of journals. Databases usually concentrate on specific subject areas, and can sometimes be organized into even larger groupings of related subjects.

Within databases, references to articles can appear as citations, abstracts, or fulltext. As we've already seen, citations give you the minimum information needed to locate an article within a specific journal.

An abstract is a summary of an article, which can help you decide if the article will be useful or relevant to you.

Fulltext means that the complete article can be found in the database. Fulltext articles can appear as PDF scans, which look like a printed article, or as HTML, which looks like a web page. HTML articles usually don't have graphics or other images, which might be found in a paper or PDF copy of the article. They also usually don't have page numbers, which could affect how you cite the article in your paper.

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