- Retrieving Information
- Sawyer Library's Online Catalog
- Sawyer Library's Online Databases
- The Web
- Suggestions
Retrieving Information from the Sawyer Library's Online Databases, page 5 of 8
Options for Information Retrieval
Most of the online databases licensed by the Sawyer Library offer one or more means for retrieving information, ranging from providing the bibliographic information necessary to locate the source in a library to providing the full text directly from the database. Using EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, we will review several of the information retrieval options provided by that database.
Full Text from the Database
Databases may offer one or two retrieval options concerning full text if it is directly available through the database.
"HTML Full Text" will provide the full text content of the article, and sometimes provide images such as photographs or charts.
"PDF Full Text" provides the full text content in Adobe's "pdf" format which is an image of the article as originally printed. "PDF" maintains the original format of the article including images, charts, formulas, etc. which may not be possible through HTML. To read a file formated in Adobe's pdf, the computer workstation must have the appropriate Adobe Reader/Acrobat software installed.