OASIS: Interpreting Search Results: Getting the Item

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Interpreting Search Results

Getting the Item

Collecting the essential data

The full record display also provides the bibliographic information you need to get the complete article.

Here is the information you need: author, article title, and most importantly the source information: the full magazine title, volume number, issue date, and pages.

Locating the item

Once you have the bibliographic information, you must check the Library's online catalog to locate the actual item.

For example, if you are looking for a book, you search the Library's online catalog using the author or title access point.

If you are looking for an article, it is important to remember you must search the online catalog for the title of the periodical, not the title of the article.

However, if the bibliographic record has a link to the full text, clicking on that link saves you these three steps.

Within the online Catalog, you will either find a Location and Call Number for the item OR a link to the online version of the book or journal.

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