Re: REF: Citing EbscoHost

[Dan Robinson / Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

I'll second Edward here. Unless your electronic fulltext IS an image,
I would mention the system as well as the periodical in the citation.
You might also want to include the date of the database, eg. Oct 97,
if it is dated by the publisher, or the date the search was done.
Over time, the data on a disc or database may change as corrections
are made or old data is removed to make way for new data.

When you're dealing with ASCII fulltext, many things can be
different.

1.      You can lose the original paging. You may get the number of pages
in the article or a set of the direct paging, but most ascii text
won't have page breaks with numbered pages.

2.      You can lose any charts or tables. You'll  definitely lose
pictures. Some systems can display smaller tables, but there are
compromises.

3.      If any of the text is in a foreign language, full character sets
may not be available for representation. The problem may be worse in
a Web based database than in a CDROM based database.

4.      Typos may creep into the ascii text. You won't really know if
they existed in the original, or got by the proofreaders.

Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

On 31 Oct 97 at 12:30, Edward W. Menke wrote:

> Kathy Geronzin wrote:
>
> > <SNIP>.  Getting the full-text copy of an article is almost
> > the same thing as copying the article on a copier.
> >
> >
>
>  unless it is a graphic image of the actual page, i would cite the
>  site.
>
> i worked with the senior english teacher with his research classes
> and he felt that the actual source should be noted.  for example, if
> a student used a sirs article, his bibliography should note that
> that was were the article came from.  he didn't mind students using
> sirs, but he wanted the students to realize that it was packaged and
> that they had not come across it using various journal indices.
>
[snipped]
>
> awareness and precision are very useful tools.
>
>

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