Reference databases

Published by Anne-Marie Pettersson on May 14, 2007 in Databases and Reference databases. 0 Comments
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A reference database refers you to the place where a certain article is published. It refers to printed material and contains bibliographic information about a document, whereas a full text database will give you the complete document

Reference databases or bibliographic databases contain references to printed material such as books, dissertations, reports, journal articles etc. The reference consists of bibliographic information, i.e. information about the author of the document, title, page number, place of publication, and publication year. There is also information about a book’s ISBN-number or the series/journals name and number and ISSN-number.

Each reference is provided with subject words which give information about the contents of the document. Sometimes the title does not give a good picture of what the book or article is about, and in those cases the subject words are important.

Subject words can be in another language than the document itself. This increases the possibility of finding the reference. A short summary of the contents, an abstract plus a classification code are generally also included.

Reference databases offer superior search facilities compared to full text databases. You can make a very exact search and narrow down the subject area by using all the various possibilities for limiting and expanding the search. You also get the possibility to use the thesaurus (subject word list) as well as the different indexes of the database. If you want to make a fairly complete search on your subject you should choose a subject specific reference database. Full text linking is beginning to appear also in reference databases, but in most cases you will not find the full text of the document.

One example of a Swedish reference database is ArtikelSök, where the contents of about 550 Swedish journals and about 30 newspapers are indexed.

How do I find the material?

Articles found in a reference database can be copied from the Library’s printed journals. If the Library does not hold the Journal in question, you have the possibility of ordering it from another library – to make an interlibrary loan. This also applies for books found in a reference database. If the book is held by the Library you can borrow it, or if it was borrowed by another patron you can make a reservation for it. You can also make interlibrary loans for books. Book titles held by the BTH Library are not available for interlibrary loan.

Anne-Marie Pettersson
2005-06-20