Bibliographic database
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A bibliographic or library database is a database of bibliographic records. It may be a database containing information about books and other materials held in a library (e.g. an online library catalog, or OPAC) or, as the term is more often used, an electronic index to journal or magazine articles, containing citations, abstracts and often either the full text of the articles indexed, or links to the full text.
Many scientific databases are bibliographic databases, but some are not. Within Chemical Abstracts, for example, there are databases of chemical structures and within Entrez there are databases of sequences. Outside of science, the same holds — there are databases of citations to articles in art history journals, and there are databases of images, such as ARTstor.
Some relevant databases are discussed briefly below. For a list of bibliographic databases by subject, see Academic databases and search engines.
