Use a citation to find the full text!

You can use the information in a citation to find the full text of an article, book, or website. This 6 minute tutorial will help you learn how!

The tutorial will show you:

• library tools to use
• techniques and tips

This is useful to know when:

• your instructor gives you a citation and tells you to read the article, book, or webiste
• you find an abstract in a database or on the web with no linked full text
• your instructor refers to research or research literature in a lecture and you want to read up on it
• you're doing citation chaining/citation chasing - this is where you use the bibliography of a source to find more related sources.

It's a common problem - to have a citation and no link to full text. I've blogged about it before. I hope you'll find the solutions in this short tutorial to be useful!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian