An introduction of databases available at the Library.

1. Kenton county public library Databases & Research

2. Library databases Databases are massive collections of data which allow for retrieval of the data. Databases include searchable key fields, including titles, introductory text, authors, and subject terms. You’ll need your library card number and PIN

3. Why use library databases? Experts Info not available on web Free Scholarly material Citations

4. Search engines Large number of results Looking for a specific website Very current information “breaking news” The web has no oversight to protect against biased, incomplete or out-of-date information.

5. Evaluate the information How current is the information? Are the facts accurate? Is it easy to cite? Think critically about all the information you use for your work.

6. Deciding which database to use? Database descriptions Try MetaSearch Refer to subject guide handout

7. Full text or citations Some library databases include full-text articles, some only provide citations (author, title, journal, date, etc.), and some provide a combination of both.

8. www.kentonlibrary.org

9. Federated searching

10. Access science Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®

11. Access science

12. Access science

13. Access science Tens of thousands of live cross references and links to external Web sites, plus extensive literature citations

14. Access science – biographies

15. Biography reference bank Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.

16. Biography reference bank

17. EBSCO – Masterfile premier Search popular magazines and newspapers

18. EBSCO – Masterfile premier

19. EBSCO – Masterfile premier Print Email Save Cite Export to Bib Manager Add to folder Add note

20. My EBSCO

21. EBSCO Visual Search

22. Ebsco Academic Search Premier The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, provides full text articles for nearly 4,700 publications.

23. Constructing your search Academic Search Premier

24. Finding articles ArticleFirst – Cincinnati Public Library

25. Oxford reference Dictionaries Quotations Timelines Subject Reference A Dictionary of ComputingA Dictionary of the InternetA Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units

26. Oxford reference

27. Literature resource center Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

28. Literature Resource Center

29. Opposing Viewpoints

30. Opposing Viewpoints

31. Opposing viewpoints

32. CultureGrams & Daily Life Online

33. CultureGrams & Daily Life Online

34. CultureGrams & Daily Life Online

35. Mango & Learning Express Language Learning - Mango

36. Mango & Learning Express

37. Mango & Learning Express Ebooks

38. Digital downloads

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