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Full-Text and Numeric Databases

Full-text databases contain the full text of a work right on the screen. Full-text databases are usually bibliographic databases that contain the complete article. 

For example, Britannica Online contains entire encyclopedia articles, and Lexis-Nexis provides the full-text of articles from newspapers, magazines, and other publications.

examples of some full-text databases
Lexis-Nexis, Miami Herald, and Britannica Online

  
 
Numeric databases provide mostly numeric data such as statistics, financial data, census information, economic indicators, etc. An example of a numeric database is Stat-USA, which contains statistics on United States imports and exports.

Foreign exchange rates in Stat-USA database
The Stat-USA database

  
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