What are databases in research?
A database is a searchable collection of information. In library research, a database is where you find journal articles. Each database contains thousands of articles which you can search for simultaneously and quickly to find articles with higher relevancy than searching in individual journals.
What is an academic database?
The definition of an academic database is a collection of information that is commonly used for research and writing, including access to academic journals.
Is ProQuest a database?
ProQuest databases provides a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000 ebooks.
Is Cinahl a database?
CINAHL Database provides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.
Are PubMed articles free?
Articles in PubMed Central are freely available. Articles on Publisher’s websites are either freely available or can be accessed with a fee. Contact the specific publisher for questions about their site.
Is PMC the same as PubMed?
What is the difference between PMC and PubMed? PubMed is a database of citations and abstracts. PMC is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles, offering free access to its contents.
Is everything on PubMed peer-reviewed?
Most of the journals in Medline/PubMed are peer-reviewed. Generally speaking, if you find a journal citation in Medline/PubMed you should be just fine.
Which of the following is an example of a scholarly source?
Scholarly and Popular Sources
| Scholarly | |
|---|---|
| Examples: | Journal of Asian History, New England Journal of Medicine, Chemical Reviews, Educational Psychologist; books from University presses such as Oxford University Press and the University of California Press |
| Focus: | Specific and in-depth |
| Language: | Dense; includes academic jargon |
What is considered a scholarly website?
Websites produced by government departments, representing industry bodies, universities or research centers often contain useful information such as statistics, policies, reports and case studies and are considered scholarly. Remember to carefully evaluate results when selecting scholarly websites.