Understanding databases
What are databases?
Databases are:
Collections of information organised into records.
Each record is made up of a number of fields which are searchable.
Fields in a typical record may include author, title of article, title of journal, issue details and subject headings or descriptors.
Why use databases?
Databases index thousands of documents.
They are searchable by keywords to find records on your topic.
It is much easier than trying to look through all the journals to find articles.
