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Librarian's guide to online searching : cultivating database skills for research and instruction / Christopher C. Brown.

By: Brown, Christopher C, 1953- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, [2021]Edition: Sixth editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781440878244Subject(s): Database searching | Electronic information resource searchingAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Librarian's guide to online searchingDDC classification: 025.04 LOC classification: ZA4460
Contents:
Introduction to library databases -- How databases work -- Controlled vocabularies -- The searcher's toolkit: part 1 -- The searcher's toolkit: part 2 -- Database interfaces: vendor features and variations -- Social science databases -- Government information databases -- Humanities databases -- Science, engineering, and medical databases -- Numerical and statistical databases -- From bibliographic databases to full text ebooks -- Web-scale discovery databases -- User behaviors and meeting information needs -- Evaluating databases -- Teaching other people about databases.
Summary: "An indispensable book for learning about databases"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to library databases -- How databases work -- Controlled vocabularies -- The searcher's toolkit: part 1 -- The searcher's toolkit: part 2 -- Database interfaces: vendor features and variations -- Social science databases -- Government information databases -- Humanities databases -- Science, engineering, and medical databases -- Numerical and statistical databases -- From bibliographic databases to full text ebooks -- Web-scale discovery databases -- User behaviors and meeting information needs -- Evaluating databases -- Teaching other people about databases.

"An indispensable book for learning about databases"-- Provided by publisher.

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