KENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYDatabases & Research

LIBRARY DATABASES

Databases are massive collections of data which allow for retrieval of the data.

Databases include searchable key fields, including titles, introductory text, authors, and subject terms.

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WHY USE LIBRARY DATABASES?

Experts

Info not available on web

Free

Scholarly material

Citations

SEARCH ENGINES

Large number of results Looking for a specific website Very current information “breaking news” The web has no oversight to protect against

biased, incomplete or out-of-date information.

EVALUATE THE INFORMATION

How current is the information?

Are the facts accurate?

Is it easy to cite?

Think critically about all the information you use for your work.

DECIDING WHICH DATABASE TO USE?

Database descriptions Try MetaSearch Refer to subject guide handout

FULL TEXT OR CITATIONS

Some library databases include full-text articles, some only provide citations (author, title, journal, date, etc.), and some provide a combination of both.

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FEDERATED SEARCHING

ACCESS SCIENCE

Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition

110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®

ACCESS SCIENCE

ACCESS SCIENCE

ACCESS SCIENCETens of thousands of live

cross references and links to external Web sites, plus

extensive literature citations

Tens of thousands of live cross references and links to external Web sites, plus

extensive literature citations

ACCESS SCIENCE – BIOGRAPHIES

BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE BANK

Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.

BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE BANK

EBSCO – MASTERFILE PREMIER

Search popular magazines and newspapers

EBSCO – MASTERFILE PREMIER

EBSCO – MASTERFILE PREMIER

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MY EBSCO

EBSCO VISUAL SEARCH

EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER

The worlds largest academic multi-�disciplinary database, provides full text articles for nearly 4,700 publications.

CONSTRUCTING YOUR SEARCH

Academic Search Premier

FINDING ARTICLES

ArticleFirst – Cincinnati Public Library

OXFORD REFERENCE

Dictionaries Quotations Timelines Subject Reference

A Dictionary of ComputingA Dictionary of the Internet A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units

OXFORD REFERENCE

LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER

Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS

CULTUREGRAMS & DAILY LIFE ONLINE

CULTUREGRAMS & DAILY LIFE ONLINE

CULTUREGRAMS & DAILY LIFE ONLINE

MANGO & LEARNING EXPRESS

Language Learning - Mango

MANGO & LEARNING EXPRESS

MANGO & LEARNING EXPRESS

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