The icon next to each result indicates the source type. Academic Journals are often the most useful for school and professional research.

The article’s author, journal in which it appears, publication date, and page numbers appear in the first lines. This information is what one would find in a citation. See example below.

The next lines are the beginning of the article’s abstract, or description of the article.

Click on the title if you want to view the detailed record and read the entire abstract. Subject terms are searches that would lead to this article; use these to help understand what you will find in this article and for other ideas related to the topic.

If the article has images, charts or graphs, thumbnails will be shown

Full-text articles can be in HTML or PDF format, or both. To access the article, click on the blue hyperlinked title, HTML Full Text, or PDF Full Text, or use the icons in the left side of the screen