A little help, please....
Also, possibly titled "Librarianism".
"A little help, please": or Please, let me do YOUR work for you.... Seriously.
I picked up 6 books on databases, 'cause I was tired of stareing at the databases on my screen dumbly going "Dur." like butthead. Ghee... what do I DO exactly with this "thing". The assignment is to play around with it.... Rrrright..so, I'll play around with it...
Any one got any questions they'd like me to look up for them so that I feel less like a moron?
The databases I have "choosen" are:
~ The Art Full Text Index
Art Full Text
Subjects covered: This database is a part of Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega. It is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
Use this database to search for articles on these subjects:
Advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.
Content: Over 475 journals. Over 150 of those journals are full text.
Dates covered: 1984 -
Updated: daily
Provider: WilsonWeb
Help using this database: WilsonWeb online help
~ Mental Measurments Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Subjects covered: Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Covers: Psychology, psychiatry, education, behavioral science, speech, language and hearing.
Content: Reviews of over 2000 standardized test, full text.
Dates covered: 1989 - (9th - 16th Yearbooks)
Updated: twice yearly
Provider: Ovid
Help using this database: Help tab in database.
~ Social Servces Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts
Subjects covered: Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Major areas of coverage include:
Community and mental health services, Crisis intervention, The family and social welfare, Gerontology, Poverty and homelessness, Professional issues in social work, Social and health policy, Social services in addiction, Social work education, Social work practice, Support groups/networks, Violence, abuse, neglect, Welfare services
Content: Over 1300 journals, abstracts only.
Dates covered: 1979 -
Updated: monthly
Provider: CSA Illumina
Help using this database:CSA online help
Some of those databases require passwords as they are proprietary and not for public use... hence the existance of a breed of people who may otherwise be sutibly uselesss save for the maintianace of said things as "pooled monies" and "passwords" and "distributed services".
So, please, let me be of service to you by answering a question you may have. In reciprocation, you will be facilitating my position from 'moron' to 'useful'. I need *your* burnning questions about Arts, Psychiatry (or you could ask Tom Cruise....), and mental health, among other things.... Anything else that is burrning a whole through your cranium... let me go look it up for you.... I'll do the best I can to sniff it out for you!
Next time I will select 3 different subject area databases to search, so if you don't see your area now, look to an entry like this in future.
"A little help, please": or Please, let me do YOUR work for you.... Seriously.
I picked up 6 books on databases, 'cause I was tired of stareing at the databases on my screen dumbly going "Dur." like butthead. Ghee... what do I DO exactly with this "thing". The assignment is to play around with it.... Rrrright..so, I'll play around with it...
Any one got any questions they'd like me to look up for them so that I feel less like a moron?
The databases I have "choosen" are:
~ The Art Full Text Index
Art Full Text
Subjects covered: This database is a part of Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega. It is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
Use this database to search for articles on these subjects:
Advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.
Content: Over 475 journals. Over 150 of those journals are full text.
Dates covered: 1984 -
Updated: daily
Provider: WilsonWeb
Help using this database: WilsonWeb online help
~ Mental Measurments Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Subjects covered: Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Covers: Psychology, psychiatry, education, behavioral science, speech, language and hearing.
Content: Reviews of over 2000 standardized test, full text.
Dates covered: 1989 - (9th - 16th Yearbooks)
Updated: twice yearly
Provider: Ovid
Help using this database: Help tab in database.
~ Social Servces Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts
Subjects covered: Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Major areas of coverage include:
Community and mental health services, Crisis intervention, The family and social welfare, Gerontology, Poverty and homelessness, Professional issues in social work, Social and health policy, Social services in addiction, Social work education, Social work practice, Support groups/networks, Violence, abuse, neglect, Welfare services
Content: Over 1300 journals, abstracts only.
Dates covered: 1979 -
Updated: monthly
Provider: CSA Illumina
Help using this database:CSA online help
Some of those databases require passwords as they are proprietary and not for public use... hence the existance of a breed of people who may otherwise be sutibly uselesss save for the maintianace of said things as "pooled monies" and "passwords" and "distributed services".
So, please, let me be of service to you by answering a question you may have. In reciprocation, you will be facilitating my position from 'moron' to 'useful'. I need *your* burnning questions about Arts, Psychiatry (or you could ask Tom Cruise....), and mental health, among other things.... Anything else that is burrning a whole through your cranium... let me go look it up for you.... I'll do the best I can to sniff it out for you!
Next time I will select 3 different subject area databases to search, so if you don't see your area now, look to an entry like this in future.