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Article: CSA Illustrata: is a picture really worth a thousand words?(THE BETTER MOUSETRAP)(ProQuest CSA's database of natural sciences)
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- May 1, 2007
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What do you do when you need to find relevant information that may not be contained in text? Many technical and scientific articles and papers rely heavily on tables, figures, and graphs to convey information. Often, full-text services drop this content and indexing services may skip over it too. Typically, you have to perform a search based on some keywords contained within the text, sometimes only captions, and then chase down full-image copies of the articles to see if they contain the information you need.
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