Chapter 3: Using Databases for Accessing Information

Full-text databases contain the full text of a work right on the screen. Full-text databases are usually bibliographic databases that contain the complete article.

For example, Britannica Online contains entire encyclopedia articles, and Academic Search Premier Fulltext provides the full-text of articles from newspapers, magazines, and other publications.



Numeric databases provide mostly numeric data such as statistics, financial data, census information, economic indicators, etc. An example of a numeric database is Stat-USA, which contains statistics on United States imports and exports.

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