Chicago is insane. We were trying to figure out how one is supposed to cite an article from a database that publishes it's own articles rather than publishes reprinted articles (ABC-Clio, for reference), and along the way discovered that Chicago requires one to provide a stable URL for every article one uses from any sort of database.
This seems rational, until more research reveals that Lexis-Nexis Academic requires a *backend user* to generate a stable URL. LNA's solution is to suggest that students email the school's electronic resources manager (which would be. . . oh wait, we don't have one), request a URL, and then wait for it to arrive.
Like high school students are going to bother to do that. Hell, I wouldn't have done it in *grad school*.
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Date: 2008-01-12 07:37 pm (UTC)This seems rational, until more research reveals that Lexis-Nexis Academic requires a *backend user* to generate a stable URL. LNA's solution is to suggest that students email the school's electronic resources manager (which would be. . . oh wait, we don't have one), request a URL, and then wait for it to arrive.
Like high school students are going to bother to do that. Hell, I wouldn't have done it in *grad school*.