Research Database

Research databases organize particular types of materials. Some index citations for government documents, conference proceedings, book reviews, or magazine and journal articles. Others, like your library catalog, focus on a particular collection (i.e. all the holdings of the Mundt Library). Knowing what type of information you are looking for will make your selection easier.

Most research databases specialize in a particular subject. There are databases for education, business, anthropology, engineering, and architecture - virtually every academic discipline! Other databases are more general or multi-disciplinary, indexing popular and scholarly periodicals from a wide variety of topics. The purpose of and the audience for any database determines its content.

A Research Database may also be called a periodical index, an article database, a database, an index

 

Now that you understand the basics of the classification systems and research databases lets move on to the Library Catalog.