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At a basic level, a database is a collection of information which can be searched. It is a way of storing, indexing, organising and retrieving information. You may have created one yourself to keep track of your references ? or your friends' names and addresses. They are useful for finding articles on a topic, and can be used to search for many different types of information.
You may find some of the following databases useful for your topic. They contain different types of information, but are all searchable.
| ROUTES | ROUTES is a database providing access to selected quality-assessed freely available internet resources, selected by course teams and the Open University Library's Learning and Teaching Librarians. |
| NLM Gateway | Allows you to search in multiple retrieval systems (databases) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) from a single interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources. |
| Social Care Online | Contains over 50,000 abstracts of books, government reports, research papers, publications of voluntary organisations, and articles from a wide range of journal titles ? academic, research, practice and news-orientated. The database covers UK, North American and other English-language resources |
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