Professional paper

ELECTRONIC DATABASES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Irena Frigo-Haltrich ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Due to their professional selectiveness and the standardized processing, commercial databases are a valuable source of scientific information. This paper describes the rationale behind their emergence and evolution in the sense of technological and content changes that the on-line databases have gone through in their forty-year existence. On today’s market there are hosts that offer a plethora of databases. In the Croatian academic community the access is provided via NSK and CARNet. The article lists the examples of surfing on major on-line databases available in the web form (EMERALD, CSA and EBSCO) as the relevant electronic sources of information from the field of social sciences/humanities.

Keywords

commercial on-line databases; scientific information; social sciences/humanities

Hrčak ID:

24308

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24308

Publication date:

13.8.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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