Librarian's guide to online searching : cultivating database skills for research and instruction

Brown, Christopher C. 1953- (author.).

Summary: "An indispensable book for learning about databases"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781440878732
ISBN: 1440878730
ISBN: 9781440878237
ISBN: 1440878234
ISBN: 9781440878244
Physical Description: print
xvii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.