Database-provision of database access to proprietary research database to graduates of an academic institution. (ODLIS)
Citation databases- databases that only give citations and not full texts
Citation and abstract databases- databases that only give abstracts and citations not full texts
Full text databases- databases that give the full text.
Open access- fully peer reviewed journals that are open to the public reporting original research. (ODLIS)
Stop words- small words that databases reguard as insignificant, such as “as” “is” “the”.
Phrase searching- searching for a phrase in quotations so the database wont leave out the stop words.
Proximity searching- using the symbols n and w which allow for proximity searches, which is searching for words with in or near other words
Adjacency searching- what databases do, they search for the words right next to each other in the title or text or whichever specified, for example, jesus camp. the database will search for “jesus camp” not jesus then camp unless specified with and in between them.
