Reference Checking in a Web World; A Reference Librarian's Trek Through Sci-Tech and News Sources

Abstract

A request to find all publications and news items for an author, especially someone who has a fairly common name, is something reference librarians either look forward to as a challenge, face with dread, or both. This type of question first gave us our name -- reference librarian -- and it never goes away. Finding a good, complete answer has taken on added difficulty with the advent of institutional repositories.

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