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  2. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    A bibliographic database covering all of ASCE's publications since 1872 Free American Society of Civil Engineers: Cochrane Library: Medicine, Healthcare: Includes reviews of research to promote evidence-based healthcare. Subscription Wiley Interscience: Current Contents: Multidisciplinary: Part of Web of Science. Contains 7 discipline-specific ...

  3. Authority control - Wikipedia

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    Authority control helps researchers understand a specific subject with less wasted effort. A well-designed digital catalog/database enables a researcher to query a few words of an entry to bring up the already established term or phrase, thus improving accuracy and saving time. Makes searching more predictable.

  4. Subject indexing - Wikipedia

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    Subject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms, keywords, or other symbols in order to indicate what different documents are about, to summarize their contents or to increase findability. In other words, it is about identifying and describing the subject of documents. Indexes are constructed, separately, on ...

  5. Subject access - Wikipedia

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    Subject access. Subject access refers to the methods and systems by which books, journals, and other documents are accessed in a given bibliographic database (e.g. a library classification system ). The single records in a bibliographic file are structured in fields and each field can be searchable and combined with other fields.

  6. Bibliographic database - Wikipedia

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    Bibliographic database. A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records. This is an organised online collection of references to published written works like journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents and books. In contrast to library catalogue entries, a majority ...

  7. Pseudonymization - Wikipedia

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    Pseudonymization is a data management and de-identification procedure by which personally identifiable information fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms. [1] A single pseudonym for each replaced field or collection of replaced fields makes the data record less identifiable while remaining ...

  8. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science) - Wikipedia

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    A primary source in science is one where the authors directly participated in the research. They filled the test tubes, analyzed the data, or designed the particle accelerator, or at least supervised those who did. Many, but not all, journal articles are primary sources—particularly original research articles.

  9. Right of access to personal data - Wikipedia

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    The right of access, also referred to as right to access and ( data) subject access, is one of the most fundamental rights in data protection laws around the world. For instance, the United States, Singapore, Brazil, and countries in Europe have all developed laws that regulate access to personal data as privacy protection.