Northwest Missouri State University Y ou've read through your latest batch of student papers and now you're checking their bibliographies. In some of the papers, student citations list full-text articles from periodical databases mounted on the Internet or the URLs of Web sites. In a few cases, you think the material has been used out of context or perhaps plagiarized. If the student has listed a full-text article number in the citation, use the number to quickly locate the actual article the student retrieved from online periodical indexes.
Many libraries now offer online access to periodical indexes with selected full-text articles.
Each article is assigned an accession number which is displayed online at the beginning or end of the document. Regardless of the citation style followed, all full-text article citations now include a reference to the article accession number. If the student has not included an article number in the citation, locate the article using the database's keyword search mode by typing in unique keywords or phrases from the title of the article. Once the article is retrieved using either of the above methods, use the Find function in your Internet browser to search for unique keywords or phrases quoted. Access the URLs of cited Web pages.