Citation Information required to identify a particular text. A book citation includes author, title, publisher and year of publication while a journal citation includes author, article title and periodical title, date, volume and page numbers. Database Information that has been collected and stored to permit organized information retrieval. One type of a database is an online index . Government Documents Materials published by local, state, and federal government entities.
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Index A collection of citations of articles that have appeared in magazines, journals, and newspapers. May be found in print, CD-ROM, or online versions. A scholarly publication containing information written by experts on current research in a given field. A broad natural language search strategy which allows patrons to locate citations to individual records containing a word or combination of words in designated fields from an online catalog or database. A keyword search retrieves the greatest number of records, some of which may be irrelevant.