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EDUCATIONAL E-LEARNING PLATFORM AND PERIODICALS DATABASE
EDUCATIONAL E-LEARNING PLATFORM AND PERIODICALS DATABASE

Author(s): Ana Maria Călina, Ionica Șerban
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: e-learning platform; periodicals database

Summary/Abstract: We live in an era of communications and electronics. Everything is developing very rapidly every day. People need be informed fast, short and to the point. Our eyes began to be more careful in front of a computer or in front of a screen than before a newspaper or a magazine. I would dare affirm that the era of printed paper is nearby. Thus, in order to encounter these needs, databases were created. These are packages of information, tools and services that carry new discoveries from all fields of specialty. Databases are in electronic format, and stored on electronic media (CD-ROM) or can be accessible via the Internet. These include hundreds of prestigious professional journals and magazines, including an archive with the numbers of these from previous years, thousands of full articles, original and / or revised, abstracts, reviews, photos, description journals, bibliographic data, links to other articles or related databases, diverse queries on news published in a particular area (i.e. automatically receiving of emails for a specific item from a certain area). Periodical databases can be accessed by any person in any institution such as a library, university, organization, and so on, in front of available computers connected to the database with a password. Access to databases can be done simultaneously by several users from the same institution and simultaneously with other users who have purchased these databases. Interested institutions acquire a number of important databases in order to provide to their users access to new and prestigious sources of information. From scientifically point of view, this type of documentation processes has an important role in information, documentation and research. The advantage of regular databases are numerous: those interested can keep up with the latest information in different areas on national or international level, quickly get information to readers, can be accessed by multiple people simultaneously.

  • Issue Year: 9/2013
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 356-361
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English