Glossary Bibliographic Databases


	Electronic Bibliographic Databases

AIDSLINE - NLM bibliographic database for comprehensive coverage of information related to AIDS. Replaced by LOCATORplus.

AVLINE - NLM database for audiovisual programs. Replaced by LOCATORplus.

BIOETHICSLINE - NLM database on health-related ethical topics, produced by the Bioethics Information Retrieval Project of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

CATLINE - NLM database for books. Replaced by LOCATORplus.

CINAHL - A bibliographic database for nursing, allied health, alternative therapies, and patient/consumer health that includes more nursing periodicals than any other database. It also indexes knowledge-based information resources in many formats. CINAHL is produced by Cinahl Information Systems in Glendale, CA.

Index Medicus - A print index published by NLM, which contains citations to the biomedical literature from journals reviewed and selected by the NLM Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC). Index Medicus includes indexing for approximately 15% of the nursing journals indexed in MEDLINE.

LOCATORplus - the online catalog for the National Library of Medicine.
http://locatorplus.gov/

MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) - A universal record format for bibliographic records.

MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS®)

MEDLINE - an NLM bibliographic index for medical subjects. It was the first true database for medical literature. Records begin with 1966 journals, with experimental records from 1964 and 1965 now available as OLDMEDLINE.

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

OCLC - Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) "is a is a nonprofit, membership, library computer service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs" (OCLC, 1997). It maintains a database of the cataloging records for all its member libraries, which serves as the foundation for interlibrary resource sharing between member libraries. OCLC (1998) Online Library Computer Center, Inc. Available online at http://www.oclc.org/. Retrieved March 20, 1998.

OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)

Personal Bibliographic Reference Managers - a software program that allows you to download the results of bibliographic searches to develop your own searchable personal bibliographic databases. This usually includes the standard bibliographic fields, plus a notes field for adding comments. They also allow you to output bibliographies formatted according to the needed publication format, such as APA or MLA Style Some now permit the additions of WWW sites to the database.

Z39.50 compliant

Anational standard for BIBLIOGRAPHIC information retrieval. Officially known as ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995 - Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification, this standard establishes protocols for communication between two different computer systems. When an application is Z39.50 compliant it meets the requirements of this national standard.

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Electronic Bibliographic Databases