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Scholarly publications, chiefly in the humanities and social sciences.
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- Identify the cited text.
- Journal volume
- Place the text in context.
- Distinguish articles, reviews and other volume components.
- Record author, title, pages and document year.
- Check the bibliographic export against the record before reusing it.
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A review provides information about a book without replacing its reading.
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Persée provides digitised scholarly publications. Open the article record and check journal, year, issue and pages after finding a result. Machine-readable text helps searching, but verify a precise quotation against the scanned page.
- Resources
- Digitised scholarly journals and collections.
- Reference
- Author, title, publication, year and pagination.
- Check
- Compare the selected passage with the displayed document.
- Document granularity
- Persée distinguishes articles, reviews, illustrations and appendices.
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- References can be exported in BibTeX, RIS and other formats.
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