The databases you will use for academic research have fields that describe books, articles, conference papers, Webpages, and other information sources. So, rather than ingredients and number of servings, their fields are for information such as author, title, subject, date of publication, etc. The example below shows the relationship of a database, its records, and their fields. Bibliographic Database contains descriptive and location information only. A bibliographic database may be an index .
Catalyst is an example of an index database.
A bibliographic database may also be an abstract , which includes the same information as an index plus an abstract, or summary, of the content of the publication. Example of a record in Academic Search Fulltext Database contains the text of works, such as articles, books, poems, and essays. Encyclopedia Britannica Online is a database that consists of fulltext articles. Numeric Database provides statistics, financial data, census information, survey results, etc. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a database providing numerical data.