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Accessing DatabasesWhat is an electronic database?An electronic database is a collection of information of articles stored in digital forms. Mostly they are periodicals (which include journals, magazines, newspapers), government documents, and sometimes television or radio broadcast transcripts. No one database includes every article or periodical published; some cover general topics, e.g., Academic Search Elite, and some a specific subject, e.g. Literature Resource Center. An electronic database lets you search for articles through hundreds of magazines and journals on a particular subject, or by a specific author, or by combinations of keywords or phrases. The results of searching a database is a list of descriptions of articles called citations. To learn how to cite the information you find, click on Module 6 for citation styles and examples. The most useful databases for English 1302 and literature research are
Gale’s Literature Resource Center is the most comprehensive online database to biographical and literary criticism. This database provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors and their works. There are many general databases
which have articles that may be pertinent to your literature topic. Here are
some examples: Ebsco’s Academic Search Elite and Infotrac's
Expanded Academic A.S.A.P.; and UMI’s Periodical Index.
Electric Library is a full text database with transcripts of television
and radio broadcasting in addition to many newspapers, magazines and images.
Check out these general periodical indexes at the EPCC library home page,
and click on Online Databases to view list of the electronic
databases.
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Technical Consultant: Joe Old , El Paso Community College This site was created as part of the Integrating
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