Computer Databases

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Computer Databases the Internet

• Jim Burton, Ph.D.
• Marketing Real Estate
• College of Business

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Overview

• Access
• Older Newer Systems
• INFOTRAC
• ABI/Inform
• Business Dateline
• SUWG Library GALILEO
• Internet

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Access

• Library free fee
• Office computers
• Home computers
• College computer lab
• Dial-up modem, DSL, ISDN

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Older Databases

• Catalog checkout
• CD-ROM vs. online
• Encyclopedias
• Some reference materials
• Some publications abstracts full text

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Newer Systems

• ABI/Inform on CD-ROM
• Business Dateline on CD-ROM
• Online library searches
• INFOTRAC

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INFOTRAC

• Academic indexes 400 journals
• Business index
• Periodicals index
• Government publications index
• Investment tracking
• 800 legal publications
• 400 magazines
• National newspaper index

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ABI/Inform

• Dialog Information Services on internet
• College library
• Downloadable files
• 1,100 journals full text
• Continues to add new periodicals

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Business Dateline

• 350 publications
• Uses key words SIC codes
• Newspaper abstracts texts
• Doctoral dissertations
• State college university libraries

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SUWG Library

• Printed materials
• GALILEO
• Internet sites
• Links to other libraries
• Borrow printed books from almost anywhere

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GALILEO since 1995

• All Georgia citizens
• Links to other libraries
• Extensive business databases
• Extensive state federal publications
• Lexis-Nexis academic reference
• Wilson Business Abstracts
• Etc., etc., etc.

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Internet

• Billions of documents
• DOES NOT REPLACE RESEARCH
• Narrowing search parameters
• Finding web sites
• Creating links
• Creating web pages