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Direct linkKessler, Jane; Van Ullen, Mary K. – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
A review of the help files in several major databases revealed that database vendors have begun including information on citing sources, which has the potential to be very useful to students. Surprisingly, 94% of the citation examples in the databases reviewed had errors. The average number of errors per example was 4.3. The citation help appears…
Descriptors: Databases, Vendors, Librarians, Error Patterns
