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The Power of Clickable Links in a Record

The keywords you came up with in your brainstorming session can be used to search the CSN Library Catalog or a research database like Academic OneFile. Take a look at this library catalog record for a book on "marketing:"

Library Catalog record

The Title, Author and Subject areas of this record are each different database fields. In the record above: Quart, Alissa links to more books BY the AUTHOR. Teenage Consumers links to more books ABOUT that SUBJECT.

When you search a library catalog or a research database index of magazine or journal articles,

for example, an

Author Search Title Search Subject Search
looks only in the author field looks only in the title field looks only in the subject heading field

Let's take a closer look at subject and keyword searching.

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