NOT EVERYTHING ELECTRONIC IS REALLY FULL TEXT

Watch the Publication Date

Usually older material is not full text
(A welcome exception to this is JSTOR, a backfiles database of selected scholarly journals that maintains a "moving wall" five years back.)

Levels of Electronic Text

Bibliographic Information

Table of Contents

Subject Headings or Descriptors

Abstract

Text Only

Charts, Graphs, Typography

NOT EVERYTHING FULL TEXT IS GOOD

Popular Vs. Scholarly Articles

Harder to tell in electronic form; consult this page for further explanation

Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Literature vs. Popular Literature (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/scholarly_articles.shtml)

Important vs. Unimportant or "Also Ran" Articles

Only a thorough knowledge of the subject will reveal this. However, if you concentrate on lengthy or feature articles from scholarly sources, you will be 'way ahead in most cases

Criteria for Judging Electronic Material (or any message)

Authority -- Who is the author, editor, publisher?

Accuracy -- How does it compare with other sources?

Bias, Hidden Agendas, Point of View -- Where is the writer "coming from"?

Currency or Date of Publication -- Is the age of the material appropriate to your subject?

Coverage -- What does it include? What does it leave out?

FOUR WAYS TO FIND FULL-TEXT ARTICLES AT RUTGERS

1. The article is linked to full text in your database.



2. Search IRIS, the Rutgers catalog.



• Go to the Rutgers University Libraries Homepage
• Click on Search IRIS and Other Catalogs to find the periodicals owned by the Rutgers Libraries. Search by the title of the periodical, often found in periodical indexes under "Source." Using PERIODICAL TITLE Begins with in the pull-down menu focuses your basic search.
• Look at the periodical record. (The online record for a given periodical title may be separate from the print record, but is usually found within the non-microform record as electronic access.)


3. Follow to search for the article in IRIS, the Rutgers catalog, automatically.



4. Consult the list of Electronic Journals
   (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/ejournals/ejournals.shtml)

FULL TEXT DATABASES: A SAMPLER

Academic Search Premier -- Many subjects

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/acad_search.shtml)

Beilstein Cross Fire -- Organic Chemistry

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/beilstein.shtml)

Business & Industry Database -- Product and industry data

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/biz_and_ind_db.shtml)

Business Source Premier

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/bsp.shtml)

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/ciao.shtml)

Contemporary Women's Issues

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/cwi.shtml)

Dissertations and Theses

Includes a 24-page excerpt from the most recent dissertations.

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/digital_diss.shtml)

EEBO - Early English Books Online

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/eebo.shtml)

English Poetry Database

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/english_poetry.shtml)

Ethnic NewsWatch

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/ethnic_newswatch.shtml)

Factiva -- Business and newspaper access

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/dow_jones.shtml)

Investext -- Investment reports

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/investext.shtml)

JSTOR -- Backfiles (current year - 5)

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/jstor.shtml)

LexisNexis Academic -- Business and newspaper access

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/academic_universe.shtml)

LexisNexis Statistical -- Indexing for data from many sources

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/stat_univ.shtml)

Library Literature & Information Science

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/liblit.shtml)

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/gale_lit.shtml)

Mergent Online -- Mergent (Moody's) Manual's Online

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/fis.shtml)

Project MUSE -- Full text scholarly articles in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/project_muse.shtml)

ScienceDirect -- Over 1000 Journals from Elsevier

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/sciencedirect.shtml)

Social Science Electronic Data Library -- Over 200 data sets

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/edl.shtml)

Tablebase -- Data tables derived from business sources

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/tablebase.shtml)

Web of Science (selective links to ScienceDirect) -- Science Citation Index, Social Science citation index, Arts and Humanities citation index

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/web_of_science.shtml)

World News Connection -- Information from the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service

(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/search_guides/world_news_connection.shtml)

CITING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

For information on citing electronic sources, please see our page on Style Manuals.

(http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/cite.htm)