Finding Articles on Your Topic Exercise

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Do some searches on endangered species and/or the topic you began exploring in the previous sections.

As you explore, find out the answers to these questions:

• Can you find "help" in the system?

When you are looking at a record for an article:

• How much information is available for a given citation and/or article?
• Are there suggestions of how to find other articles on the same subject?
• Would this index be helpful for finding articles from 20 years ago and older?

Pick one citation from your results. Provide the following information about it:

• Who is the author of the article?
• What is the title of the article?
• What is the name of the periodical (magazine, journal or newspaper)?
• When was it published, include the volume and issue numbers?
• What page(s) is the article on?
• Is full text of the article available? If not, does the library own the periodical? (Hint: this will require searching in the library's catalog.)

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