[Web4lib] Citing from multiple database sources

[Jonathan Bloy]

My library recently subscribed to a few more ProQuest databases.  We're
running into a problem when we are teaching students how to cite the
source of the full-text article properly.

The problem comes up when we are in multiple databases (for example if
you get the article through our open URL link resolver).  When you find
the article in one of the ProQuest databases, it doesn't tell you
specifically what database it came from.  It just says "ProQuest
Multiple Databases."

When we asked the ProQuest rep about this, they said we should just tell
the students to use "ProQuest Aggregator" as the database.  How the
students are ever going to get that phrase when it isn't displayed
anywhere I'll never know...

Anyway, we were curious if anyone else out there has a better answer
they use in their B.I. sessions for citing sources that come from
"multiple databases" like that.


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Jonathan Bloy
Web Services Librarian
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.edu