Contents of Effective Database Use

• Effective Database Use
• What is a Database?
• What a database is not . . .
• Using a database can be irritating
• Types of Databases
• Indexing and Searching
• Ways to search your database
• Keyword Searching?
• What do the experts do?
• Author and Title searching
• Advanced Searching
• Field Searching
• Terminology
• Terminology Hints
• Use What You Found to Find More
• Use HELP
• Some Searching Tips
• AND, OR, NOT (Boolean Operator Search)
• Capital Letters
• Proximity Operators
• Wildcards and truncation
• Search Range
• Quotation Marks
• Plus and Minus Signs
• Evaluation of Information
• Criteria for judging database information
• Accuracy
• Authority
• Objectivity
• Currency
• Coverage/Content
• A few last thoughts on evaluation . . . .
• Citing Database Sources