Sociological Abstracts is an electronic database that contains thousands
            of records.

What is a record?
        A record represents a citation to a:
 

• periodical article
• conference paper
• book
• book review

How do I read a record?

        Each record is divided into fields

What is a field?
 

A field is a unit of information.
 

Click here to see an example of a database record.