The three brief videos on this page explain the process of how to work with citations for books, articles, and book chapters that you encounter during your research. This is important because many, many information sources are not on the web and are not "clickable" anywhere.
There are two parts to the process:
- identifying what kind of source the citation refers to
- Locating the full text
Citations are the "connective tissue" of scholarship, linking a chain of research stretching back over years, generations, even centuries. Learning how to interpret citations and track down what they refer to is a vital information-seeking skill.