A database is an organised collection collection fo data or information that is stored in records in electronic format. Databases are organised to support the findings of information sources including books, journals articals, conference papers,dissertations and theses,patents,research reports, trademarks,people,companies, and the information in the source.
Database records can be representations of information sources or may contain the full text of the source as well, each record must have records.
Examples of databases include bibliographic databases which contain only the bibliographic details and brief information on the intellectual context of an information source.
Full-text databases : This covers a range of content. When you search a database, you results will display three options :- (i) A bibliographic description. (ii) A bibliographic description with a link to the full text of the journal article or the book . (iii) The full text which can be a range of texts, for example a chapter in a encyclopedia, a newspaper clipping, a thesis or dissertation or a chapter in the bible.
A database field will include the title field, author field, journal title field and field for the volume and pages numbers. A record can also include brief descriptions of the intellectual content of the information source, for example fields for descriptors,identifiers and indexing terms.
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