Librarian's guide to online searching : cultivating database skills for research and instruction /
Christopher C. Brown.
- Sixth edition.
- 1 online resource
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"--
9781440878244
2021008665
Database searching. Electronic information resource searching.