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Assignment 1: Library Database Analysis

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The library databases include JSTOR, ProQuest and EBSCOhost Databases. These databases require the user to create a personal account. With these three databases once the users personal account is verified, they will receive an automated email confirming the account and provide immediate access. The benefit of securing a personal account with these databases consist of the ability to organize resources, to retrieve the search history, and establish numerous alerts (Personal Database Accounts, 2015). However, the disadvantages to having a personal account with these databases, is that the user must login each session, if they want to access or save articles, and ProQuest requires the user to log in every 76 days, if not the account will become inactive after 90 days (Personal Database Accounts, 2015). Citation management tools A citation manager aids you in keeping track of articles and books as you identify them, annotate and tag them, and easily create bibliographies and citations using Microsoft Word. Any citation manager can be used and will be most efficient for many scholars than not using one at all. Each manager has its own plug-in for Microsoft Word and some also have browser plug-ins for easy capture of web links. Each manager similarly has fixed connections to Google Scholar …show more content…

It is a stable, well-established platform, yet has restrictions as far as working with PDF files allows the client to either import references from NCU Library or the client might physically enter the data for the references. This online research management tool sorts out the references into the folders created by the client, track every one of the references the client has saved, and consequently make and configurates the reference list into APA format for later utilization (Personal Database Accounts,

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