Using citation checking of undergraduate honors thesis bibliographies to evaluate library collections

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 417-429

  Leiding, Reba ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 26444598030     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.66.5.417     Document Type: Article

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18. For a comment on Smith's methodology and response, see "Letters to the Editor," College & Research Libraries 65 (Jan. 2004): 6-7.
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28. The library had access to two databases containing some full-text articles (Gale Expanded Academic and General Business File) beginning in 1996, but their full-text content was too unstable to be verified reliably as a source of availability. Citations were checked against Lexis-Nexis Academic as a source for newspapers and law journal articles cited in theses after 1999. Rarely, students' citations indicated that the cited reference was accessed through a database, in which case the citation was counted as locally held, but in most cases citations did not include any information about electronic access.
29. Davis and Cohen, "The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior 1996-1999."
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31. _, "Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age."