SubjectSpecific Databases

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Subject-Specific Databases

• Amanda Izenstark
• LIB 120

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What Databases Do

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What Databases Do

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General Databases

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Subject-Specific Databases

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Subject-Specific Databases

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Subject-Specific Databases

• You can look at the databases grouped by topic on
  the URI Librarys Reference Database page at
  http//www.uri.edu/library/reference_databases/ind
  ex.html
• You can look at the entire list of databases at
  http//www.uri.edu/library/reference_databases/tit
  le.html

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Databases

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Databases

• Academic Search Premier
• URI pays
• And thats just for one database!

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Holdings vs. Access to the Literature

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To Summarize...