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full-text database
A full-text database (or complete-text database) is a database that contains the full text of books, dissertations, journals, magazines, newspapers or other textual documents. It differs from [[bibliographic database]s, which typically contain only bibliographic metadata and sometimes abstracts, and from other non-bibliographic databases such as directories and numeric databases. One of the earliest systems of this type was [[IBM STAIRS], introduced in 1973.Full-text databases became more widespread around 1990, when advances in computer storage and processing made large-scale text storage and retrieval more practical. Two main categories are often distinguished: extensions of traditional bibliographic database systems into full-text systems (for example, on hosts such as [[BRS/Search|BRS], Dialog, LexisNexis, and Westlaw) and Internet-based full-text systems, which are typically documented using search engines or structured document formats such as XML.
Article summary
A full-text database (or complete-text database) is a database that contains the full text of books, dissertations, journals, magazines, newspapers or other textual documents. It differs from [[bibliographic database]s, which typically contain only bibliographic metadata and sometimes abstracts, and from other non-bibliographic databases such as directories and numeric databases. One of the earliest systems of this type was [[IBM STAIRS], introduced in 1973.Full-text databases became more widespread around 1990, when advances in computer storage and processing made large-scale text storage and retrieval more practical. Two main categories are often distinguished: extensions of traditional bibliographic database systems into full-text systems (for example, on hosts such as [[BRS/Search|BRS], Dialog, LexisNexis, and Westlaw) and Internet-based full-text systems, which are typically documented using search engines or structured document formats such as XML.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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