Choosing a Database

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Choosing a Database
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What to look for

• Bibliographic, full-text or a combination
• Readers Guide Abstracts
• Lexis-Nexis
• EBSCOhost
• Subject coverage
• General vs subject specific

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General Databases

• Cover a broad range of topics and disciplines
• Index both popular magazines and scholarly
  journals
• Articlefirst
• Readers Guide
• GPO - Catalog

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Subject Databases

• Coverage is limited to a particular subject area
  or discipline
• Index mostly scholarly or trade journals
• PsychINFO
• Humanities Abstracts
• Medline

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Other things to be aware of

• Time period covered how far back
• Types of material indexed
• Articles
• Book chapters
• Dissertations
• Exhibition catalogs
• Number of periodicals indexed

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Lets look at some databases

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