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Title
Librarian's guide to online searching
Type
Text
Monograph
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Plates
Classification
LCC: ZA4460 .B45 2018
DDC: 025.04 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"This book describes the background of how databases work; how they are constructed and in the case of some databases; how they transitioned from the legacy print world to an online environment; how technologies within databases can interact with other products like bibliography citation services, outbound linking to full text content, and social media mentions; and the methods used by libraries to provide access to licensed content from anywhere in the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Introduction to library databases
How databases work
Controlled vocabularies
The searcher's toolkit: part 1
The searcher's toolkit: part 2
Database interfaces: vendor features and variations
Social science databases
Government information databases
Humanities databases
Science, engineering, and medical databases
Numerical and statistical databases
From bibliographic databases to full text ebooks
Web-scale discovery databases
User behaviors and meeting information needs
Evaluating databases
Teaching other people about databases.
Authorized Access Point
Brown, Christopher C., 1953- Librarian's guide to online searching