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Q. Dear Q&A, We are an undergraduate academic library where students access most of the articles they cite from online databases such as EBSCO HOST Academic Search Premier. Our faculty would like to know how you would suggest citing articles from this source, as the URLs on these databases are not persistent. Thank you.
A. Notwithstanding the advice at 17.357, it can generally be considered unnecessary to cite the name or URL of a third-party database that provides access, typically through library Web sites, to published material. Instead, cite the original publication information of the article.
