Week 10

When I first searched for an article on Google Scholar, I didn’t have the “Pollak Library Find It!” showing, but this was easily remedied and then I was finding everything about global warming and identifying if our library had the particular articles. Here is the article citation I used in both Google Scholar and the “citation finder” from the library’s website:

Title: Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model Source: Nature [0028-0836] Cox yr: 2000 vol: 408 iss: 6809 pg: 184

Wow! What do you know…both the results I obtain from Google Scholar and “citation finder” appeared to be exactly the same. I then went back to the “citation finder” and changed the page number. Hmmm…the article was retrieved. So, I went back and changed the journal volume number. Uh-oh…no article was found. I’m assuming the “citation finder” must search within the particular volume and then match the article title. Page number must not be as important of a variable in obtaining the correct article. I then removed all components of the citation and tried to find what was the least amount of information I could enter and still obtain a direct path to the pdf file. I found that I needed the article title, journal title, and volume in order to retrieve the article. I imagine this could be different depending on the publication formats of different journals.

Here is the openURL to the global warming article I found:

http://sfx.calstate.edu:9003/fullerton?auinit=PM&aulast=Cox&atitle=Acceleration%20of%20global%20warming%20due%20to%20carbon-cycle%20feedbacks%20in%20a%20coupled%20climate%20model&id=doi%3A10.1038%2F35041539&title=Nature&volume=408&issue=6809&date=2000&spage=184&issn=0028-0836&sid=libx

Having many different sources for citation metadata/openURLs can be a benefit for those who are searching for information and doing research. However, there needs to be a basic understanding of the information provided in the citation itself. Seeing how a number of individuals creatively interpret citations to formulate interlibrary loan requests often highlights the many difficulties individuals have in understanding what information a citation is able to convey. The better understanding an individual has about citations and the citation's component parts, the more beneficial it would seem to have many different sources for citation metadata/openURLs. However, if there is a lack of knowledge about citations, many different sources of citation metadata could be confusing and overwhelming.

If you are bored or if you like hockey, here is an interesting article:

http://p9003-sfx.calstate.edu.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/fullerton?genre=article&isbn=&issn=0038822X&title=Sports%20Illustrated&volume=110&issue=5&date=20090209&aulast=Farber&atitle=No%20Looking%20Back.&spage=56&pages=56-58&sid=EBSCO%3AAcademic%20Search%20Premier&pid=%3Cauthor%3EFarber%2C%20Michael%3C%2Fauthor%3E%3Cui%3E36354973%3C%2Fui%3E%3Cdate%3E20090209%3C%2Fdate%3E%3Cdb%3EAcademic%20Search%20Premier%3C%2Fdb%3E