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F

Factual database

A 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 database

A 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.


G

Google

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.


I

intranet

A 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.


K

Keyword

It 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...)?


L

Link resolver

Link 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.

 


N

notated music

It's a broader concept then printed or written music. It's used not to exclude computer notated music.


O

Online tutorials

It's a computer program - normally rather short and with the possibility to interact with it - giving you information about some specific subject or topic.


OPAC

Short 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 access

used 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).
The open-access movement strive to provide free online access to scientific literature, primarily intended for scholarly journal articles, but also for thesis and ebooks.
The publishers generally own the rights to the articles in their journals. Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them. Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from the publisher and is often required to pay an additional fee.
Although many researchers can access the journals they need via their institution and they may think that the access is free, but in reality it is not so. The institution has often been involved in lengthy negotiations around the price of their license.
Authors can provide open access in two ways: by self-archiving their journal articles in an open access repository, or by publishing in an open access journal.



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