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Article: Searching by and for the book.
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- March 1, 2007
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Before there were online and the Internet, libraries connoted books to most people. Yet books are one of the more overlooked research resources in an electronic-information environment. Those who advocate the Internet as a replacement for a library collection--and sometimes for the building itself--forget that the nature of information found via a Web search is very different from what one finds browsing a physical collection.
Online databases that were introduced 3 decades ago gave researchers bibliographic access to the periodical literature, although full text didn't appear until the 1980s. Many premium content sources today (such as CSA, Dialog, EBSCOhost, ...