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| show | A summary of a journal article or other publication
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| show | Older issues of a journal
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| show | List of references to books, journal articles and other information sources. They are usually placed at the end of a publication or piece of coursework.
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| Bibliography | show 🗑
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| show | The use of AND, OR or NOT to combine search terms and limit or increase search results
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| Catalogue | show 🗑
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| PAC | show 🗑
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| show | The database used within a library to manage some or all key functions including including acquisitions, circulation, interlibrary loans
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| show | Sometimes known as document delivery, a service which allows the Library to borrow or obtain items from other libraries outside its network or organisation
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| show | The basic information about a source such as a book or journal article, with sufficient details to enable someone to track it down. Sometimes also referred to as a reference.
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| show | The number placed on the spine of a book, is a code which provides information about the subject of the book and its location in the library.
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| show | The entire content of an item, such as an article or book, available in electronic format. Some databases contain the full text of journal articles.
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| Journal | show 🗑
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| Peer-review | show 🗑
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| show | Sources that you may read in the library but not borrow, including dictionaries, encyclopaedia, handbooks, almanacs etc. with quick facts, definitions, tables or formulae.
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| Reference | show 🗑
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| Referencing | show 🗑
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| Self-issue machine | show 🗑
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| Authentication | show 🗑
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| show | The word is short for "web log". It is basically a type of website. Content is published in date order and is updated regularly.
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| show | An index listing articles that refer to (cite) an earlier work. It can provide an alternative way to search for a subject by taking a useful or well known paper and looking at later work which refers back to it.
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| show | International Standard Book Number. A unique 10 digit code assigned to a specific edition of a book before it is published. Since 2007, ISBNs have been 13 digits.
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| show | International Standard Serial Number. This is an 8 digit code assigned to a specific journal or serial title.
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| show | A publication, issued on a regular basis, containing popular articles, written and illustrated in a less technical manner than articles found in a scholarly journal. Usually aimed at the general public rather than for researchers at university.
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| show | Data used to identify, describe, and locate resources. Subject gateways may provide metadata about individual web sites, via author, title, URL and a brief description. A library catalogue contains metadata about books & other resources in the library.
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| show | a book, as opposed to a serial or journal. Monographs are usually written on a single subject in a scholarly manner by a specialist.
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| show | A format for delivering regularly changing web content; often avilable for news-related sites and blogs. Sites syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whomever wants it. Feed Reader software (eg Google Reader) grabs and displays the RSS feeds.
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| show | describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.
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| show | Page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Often used to create collaborative websites (e.g. Wikipedia) and for community websites.
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| show | A MAchine-Readable Cataloguing record. Bibliographic records - information about a book, serial, videorecording, etc. & Authority records - standardised forms for names, titles, & subjects that are used on bib.records, with cross-references in catalogues
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| show | The process where books and other materials are loaned or charged out to library users, and checked back in upon their return.
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| show | A field in the catalogue in serial records that shows exactly which years and volumes of that serial are available within a library. Records for books also contain a copy/holdings information.
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| show | Documents created by a person or organisation in the course of the conduct of affairs and preserved for their historical value.
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| show | Assigned standardised terms used in searching a specific database or catalogue. Terms will differ for each database. Sometimes called "subject headings" or "descriptors."
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| show | The physical form of information as opposed to the content. Examples of formats include books, journals, newspapers, electronic, and microforms.
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| show | A library service that manages the circulation of certain required course materials selected by lecturers/teachers and made available for short-term loans.
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| show | Same as peer-reviewed ie the process by which a journal or article has been checked by an editorial board of experts to ensure that it contains genuine scholarly research.
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| show | See also Journal. A print or electronic information source that is published at regular intervals under the same title.
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