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Publication Date: 2006-May
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Field Guides in Academe: A Citation Study
Schmidt, Dianne
Journal of Academic Librarianship, v32 n3 p274-285 May 2006
Field guides are common in libraries but are generally not considered scholarly. This study examines citations to fifty field guides to determine how they were used in scholarly publications, finding that field guides are frequently cited as a source of data on the ranges, habits, and descriptions of plants and animals.
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