E-resources
A list of the resources in the digital library and of e-resources related terms
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Factual databaseA factual database is an electronic archive containing factual data (for example chemical formulas, statistic or demographic data, graphics, numeric or alphanumeric information, law and so on). | |||
Full text databaseA full text database is an organized collection of bibliographic records that contains the complete text of books, dissertation, journals, magazines, etc. It may be general in scope or cover a specific academic discipline.Most of full text databases are proprietary, available by licensing agreement from vendors. | ||
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Google is the most used search engine in the world (about 90% in Italy). Nowadays it is probably the most powerful, fast and rich of documents search engine (and it's free too), but Google is constantly argued because of its many unsolved problems (e.g. criteria of the algorithm PageRank, privacy, filter bubble). Google is also a very big corporation that offers a lot of services like Google Maps, Gmail, Google+ (a social network), etc. Google Scholar and Google Books are two tools that can be very useful for an academic research. | |||
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intranetA computer network based on the Internet Protocol technology within an organization. It is of strategic importance because it affects almost all aspects of the organization itself, such as comunication, collaboration,productivity, cost-effectiveness, costs. | ||
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KeywordIt is a word or a phrase used to search certain topics or themes within the web. Keywords can be insert inserted into a search engine or a database. Using a very specific keyword should lead to a narrow number of results, that shoud be answering to the aim of the search. shoud be answering to the aim of the search: should answer according to the search aim What about talking about HOW the keywords are inserted in the database, and WHO could do it (authors, librarians...)? | |||
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Link resolverLink resolver it's a paying service (e.g. Linksolver offered by Ebsco) and it appears like a simple 'button' to click. When you find a record in a bibliographic database, the link resolver searches in the e-resources (full text databases, aggregators, e-journals, etc.) of your institution for the full text (usually PDF). If there is no full text avaible, then it will link you to the opac or the document delivery service.
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notated musicIt's a broader concept then printed or written music. It's used not to exclude computer notated music. | ||
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Online tutorials | ||
OPACShort form for online public acces catalogue, it is an online database of bibliographic materials held by a library. It is used to locate books and other material available at that library. | ||
Open accessused for digital resources available without fee in Internet or in an institutional repository. in: "on the Internet" - consider it idiomatic. The term "open access" was first used in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the open access movement was established, and then it was officialized through 3 worldwide initiatives: the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003), and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003). | |||