A Guide to What You'll Find on the Results List

Each item on the results list contains information designed to let you decide if you want to view or retrieve the document itself. Clicking the document's hyperlinked title displays the full content of the document.

Here is a sample item from a results list from PowerSearch:

The table below explains the icons and links you may find for each item on your results list. Refer to the example shown above. Remember, clicking the document's hyperlinked title takes you directly to the document display page, where you'll find the full text of the corresponding document. You may change which search limiters are applied to the results and/or change the way results are sorted, where available.

Here's what you may find for items on your search results list:

You'll see either...
Icon	Text link	What it means...
	Always appears as an icon	Checkbox to mark or unmark the document, which will add or remove it, respectively, from your Mark List
Always appears as a text link	Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.	Title of the document is a hyperlink to display the full record
Always appears as text	Lawrence I. Berkove American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Eds. Gary Scharnhorst and Tom Quirk . Vol. 3. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. p1101-1105. (3394 words) From Gale Virtual Reference Library.	Brief citation information that includes, where applicable: author, editor, edition, source, page number, publisher, date published, etc. Click the source (publication title) to go to either the About this Publication page or the Issues page where you'll find brief publication information (Note: Full citation information can found within the document). The name of the source database is also included.
	Full-text	Click this link to see the full content of the document (no images are included)
	Full-text with graphics	Indicates that images are included; click this link to see the full content of the document
	Number PDF Page(s)	Click this link to download the document in Portable Document Format (PDF) for viewing and printing (may not be available for all documents)
and/or...	Check for this item at... Or maybe: Search library website name... Actual wording of link may vary.	If enabled by your library, you may see up to three links to allow you to search for the corresponding periodical in your library's or other institution's online holdings catalog
Various possible icons, such as:	Various possible text links, such as WorldCat or SFX	If available at your library, you may have additional ways retrieve a document via a special server that will take you out of this Gale collection and into another electronic source or the electronic catalog in your library or in a related library system
Always appears as text	Various possible document types, such as: Article Biography Introduction News Primary Document Topic Overview	At the far right of the citation you'll see a brief description of the kind of document you'll find; depending on the database(s) you are searching, this list will vary