An abstract is a brief description of the contents of an article. An article database is an index of citations to specific articles. Many article databases also have paper versions available. A citation contains information about an article that will allow someone to locate it. Information included in a citation consists of the title of the article, author, name of the journal that the article was published in, volume number of the journal, issue number, page numbers, and the date published.
Full text is an article that is available online.
Full text articles often include only the text of an article, leaving out any graphs, tables, or pictures that may be included with the article in its paper form. Full text articles may be saved, printed, or e-mailed to your account. In many of the article databases, you are given an option to limit your search according to specific criteria such as language, type of article, and year of publication. The Search for Articles option on the main Library Gateway page will take you to the listings of the article databases that are available to you. The Subject Listing of article databases shows some subject specific databases as well as some general databases.