On the Advanced Search screen, what does Full Record mean?
The Full Record is made up of the title of the article, the author(s) name(s), the source (i.e., journal name, date, pagination), usually an abstract (summary) of the article, and in some cases additional topical or subject terms often referred to as indexing. Note that the full record in scitopia.org does not include the full text. However, users can obtain the full text if they either subscribe to that publishers content, or wish to purchase the article from the publisher. Entering a query in “Full Record” will search the title, abstract and indexing text of the record. Generally searching these “fields” yields the most relevant (ranked) results.
