Faculty Workshop on Information Literacy
Session 5:
Electronic Indexes
Friday, January 17, 1997
Alison Ricker, Science Librarian
Haipeng Li, Reference Librarian
Access: Where are the Databases? UPDATED DATABASE LIST Jan. 1998
Database Content: How to Evaluate?
- source material publication dates
- types of source material
- abstracts
- controlled subject headings or thesauri
- databases listed by subject
Software and Search Engines
Content, Structure and Engine: it's a package deal
- put it all together
- tips and techniques
Limitations
- where's the one-stop shop?
- it's NOT all online
- database overlap
and gaps
Take a Test Spin
- 3 concurrent lab sessions
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