Databases index periodicals so that you can locate articles on a specific topic without being forced to browse through them issue by issue.

You can access almost every database from any university computer - library, computer labs, dorm rooms, offices, etc. - so long as it is hooked into the university's computer network.

We subscribe to many different kinds of databases -- some contain the full-text of all of a publisher's online journals; others collect full-text articles from a variety of sources including journals, magazines, and newspapers; others simply index and abstract journals; while some are full-text encyclopedias and other reference services.

CNRI uses Berkeley DB for its major handle installations. The current handle server version includes code that helps you connect the Berkeley DB to your handle server instance. See the Technical Manual, Chapter 12, Enabling Berkeley DB JE Database Support, for information. Support for other databases is possible for anyone who provides a Java class, implementing the net.handle.hdllib.HandleStorage interface, to store and retrieve handles.

First, be sure that all of your keywords are spelled correctly. Exclude punctuation, articles (a, an, the, etc.) and prepositions (for, of, to, etc. ). One basic search strategy is to connect key concepts with the Boolean Operators (and, or, not). And narrows and connects two or more concepts (e.g. children and anxiety) to retrieve information with these terms. Or broadens and selects either or both concepts (e.g. children or kids) to retrieve information with these concepts.

http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu, or telnet melvyl.ucop.edu ("/usr/local/bin/melvyl") Accessing Melvyl from the UCLA.EDU domain, you can access several specialized databases, such as INSPEC for journal citations and full text images, and "Computer Articles" for trade magazine references.

Literature Criticism Online provides the full text of the sets: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Shakespeare Criticism, and Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. Magill on Literature contains the full text of MasterPlots and other reference books published by Magill.

About seventy percent of the databases that we subscribe to can be accessed from off campus computers.

Basic password protection is merely software enforced, and Jackcess does not do any password checking at this point. So, a password protected database can be used the same as any other.

Databases that contain full text are marked with this graphic: . Most of the databases we subscribe to offer at least some amount of full text online by clicking the link, but only a small percentage of all the periodicals that exist can be accessed this way. In many cases, the database will just provide a citation to an article.

TopLink Essentials supports any JDBC and SQL compliant database. It ships with several data platform configurations that can be selected to allow native or non-standard SQL operations to be generated. As part of ongoing testing and certification efforts TopLink Essentials is also tested against many of the leading databases. The JPA specification defines the core object-relational capabilities most applications require.

There is a whole world of applications where an XML database is the best solution. For these applications an XML database will often far surpass a relational database in convenience, ease of development and performance. Applications where XML databases are often used consist of corporate information portals, membership databases, product catalogs, parts databases, patient information tracking, business to business document exchange as well as many many others.

If you are a student, faculty, or staff of LSU, you can access databases and ejournals from anywhere that has an internet connection. Simply use the Libraries' webpage as you normally would, and enter your user ID and PIN when prompted. If you don't know what to enter see the User ID and PIN section of this FAQ. If you are not affiliated with LSU then you may not access our resources off-campus.

No, not at the moment. It would be great to make TNG database-independent, but that stands to be a big project which I don't have time for at the moment.