Understanding and navigating online databases is an essential skill for today's librarians, but staying current in this changing landscape can be a challenge. The fifth edition of this vital book ensures that you meet that challenge. Today's librarians not only need to know about existing databases and how to perform searches within them but must also be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of the fee-based and freely-available databases that are available, some of which are new to this edition, and explains their underlying information structures as well as updates to some standard databases. In addition, it covers search strategies, provides criteria for evaluating databases, and discusses how to teach others about databases. As in the previous edition, this book takes a "real world approach, " covering everything from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases. Each chapter includes a thorough discussion, recap, concrete examples, exercises, and points to consider, making this an ideal text for courses in database searching as well as a trustworthy professional resource.
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Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction
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eBook - PDF
Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Library Databases
- Chapter 2: How Databases Work
- Chapter 3: Controlled Vocabularies
- Chapter 4: The Searcher’s Toolkit: Part 1
- Chapter 5: The Searcher’s Toolkit: Part 2
- Chapter 6: Database Interfaces: Vendor Features and Variations
- Chapter 7: Social Science Databases
- Chapter 8: Government Information Databases
- Chapter 9: Humanities Databases
- Chapter 10: Science, Engineering, and Medical Databases
- Chapter 11: Numerical and Statistical Databases
- Chapter 12: From Bibliographic Databases to Full-Text E-Books
- Chapter 13: Web-Scale Discovery Databases
- Chapter 14: User Behaviors and Meeting Information Needs
- Chapter 15: Evaluating Databases
- Chapter 16: Teaching Other People about Databases
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Authors
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