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Having determined that an abstract is a description or summary of the main points of a (usually) scholarly article, here are more details about this particular abstract.

One way to determine a site's origin is to "lop-off" the last element of the URL to discover its context. In this instance, by deleting "haberland.html" from <lanic.utexas.edu/project/labor95/haberland.html> you should find some answers.

The modified URL opens this site ...

... which is a description of papers presented at a conference at the University of Texas in 1995. This paper may or may not have been subsequently published in a scholarly journal. Many conference presentations are given as talks but never published. Often an abstract provides enough information to be useful even if you cannot locate a published version. It can still be cited as an abstract found on the Internet.

(For more information on citing on-line resources check out the Internet Citation Guide published by Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/citing.htm.)

If you wanted to find out if this article had been published, what one thing should you NOT do?

look elsewhere on the web for the author's name.
look in your library's catalog.
look in some journal databases such as Academic Search
call the University of Texas at Austin, the conference sponsor, and ask how to get a copy.