Periodical Databases - Record Types

Bibliographic Citations

Bibliographic citations indicate where the referenced item may be found. If there is a Get it! button beside the citation, click on it to see if you can link to the article. If there is no Get it! button, you will need to search further to determine if the Ryerson Library has the journal or the source of the reference. The Journals by Title A-Z page contain entries for all electronic, print and microform journal titles held by the Library.

Abstracts

Abstracts contain a bibliographic citation plus a brief description of the contents of the article. From this description you should be able to determine if the article will be useful without having to look for the article itself.

Full Text

The contents of the article are included in the database. Usually full-text databases are selective full text - not all articles are reproduced in full. In many cases you will need to change the display format to view the full text of an article.