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Database providing an authoritative source of bibliographic information
A
bibliographic database
is a
database
of
bibliographic records
. This is an organised online collection of references to published written works like
journal
and
newspaper
articles, conference
proceedings
, reports, government and legal publications,
patents
and
books
. In contrast to
library catalogue
entries, a majority of the records in bibliographic databases describe articles and conference papers rather than complete
monographs
, and they generally contain very rich subject descriptions in the form of
keywords
, subject classification terms, or
abstracts
.
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A bibliographic database may cover a wide range of topics or one
academic field
like
computer science
.
[2]
A significant number of bibliographic databases are marketed under a trade name by licensing agreement from vendors, or directly from their makers: the
indexing and abstracting services
.
[3]
Many bibliographic databases have evolved into
digital libraries
, providing the full text of the organised contents:
[
citation needed
]
for instance
CORE
also organises and mirrors scholarly articles and
OurResearch
develops a search engine for
open access
content in
Unpaywall
.
[4]
Others merge with non-bibliographic and scholarly databases to create more complete disciplinary
search engine
systems, such as
Chemical Abstracts
or
Entrez
.
History
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]
Prior to the mid-20th century, individuals searching for published literature had to rely on printed
bibliographic indexes
, generated manually from
index cards
. "During the early 1960s computers were used to digitize text for the first time; the purpose was to reduce the cost and time required to publish two American abstracting journals, the
Index Medicus
of the
National Library of Medicine
and the
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA). By the late 1960s such bodies of digitized alphanumeric information, known as bibliographic and numeric databases, constituted a new type of information resource.
[5]
Online interactive retrieval became commercially viable in the early 1970s over private telecommunications networks. The first services offered a few databases of indexes and abstracts of scholarly literature. These databases contained bibliographic descriptions of journal articles that were searchable by keywords in author and title, and sometimes by journal name or subject heading. The user interfaces were crude, the access was expensive, and searching was done by librarians on behalf of 'end users'.
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See also
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References
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]
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.
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Kusserow, Arne; Groppe, Sven (2014).
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.
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.
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.
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ISBN
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.
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Price, Gary (15 May 2019).
"Impactstory Announces Beta Release of "Get The Research" Search Engine"
.
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. Retrieved
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
April 29,
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.
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Borgman, Christine L. (2007).
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
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.
ISBN
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.