What is a database?
Answer
A database is an organised, searchable collection of information.
Although databases can contain a wide range of resource types, many of the databases you will use contain journal articles. They contain information about academic journals and the articles published in them, including detailed records of individual articles, such as the title, authors, abstract, keywords, and citation information. Databases may contain either full-text articles (the whole thing), citation information (just the reference details and abstract) or a mix of both.