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Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons

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1998

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Library and Information Science

Abstracting and indexing services

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Linking To Full Texts, Carol Tenopir Apr 1998

Linking To Full Texts, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT HAS BECOME routine for librarians to help a patron compile a comprehensive customized bibliography from online or CD-ROM indexes. In fact, patrons no longer consider it sufficient to compile a list of resources. Although searching indexes and abstracts was never the end of the information seeking process, in the print world an index search was so tedious that users focused energy on the search process. Interlibrary loan could suffice for articles the library didn't hold. Now, as library users become familiar with the convenience of online searching and their expectations rise, they expect instantaneous access to full articles.

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