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Abstract
Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references.
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Synonyms
15 entry terms
- Data Banks, Factual
- Data Bases, Factual
- Databanks, Factual
- Databases, Factual
- Data Bank, Factual
- Data Base, Factual
- Databank, Factual
- Database, Factual
- Factual Data Bank
- Factual Data Banks
- Factual Data Base
- Factual Data Bases
- Factual Databank
- Factual Databanks
- Factual Database
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Aspects Covered
9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.
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History Note
1991
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Previous Indexing
- Information Systems (1966-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Factual Databases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016208. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016208
- Factual Databases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1393704