Database advisor: A guided tour

This paper reports on the Database Advisor (DBA), a web-based front-end to all sciences bibliographic and full text databases to which UCSD has remote access. Database Advisor was initiated and developed by science librarians of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) ro increase awareness and use of the bibliographic databases available to our faculty, staff and students. This paper will focus on the project scope, search capabilities and user interface. It will include a brief description of the web technology employed and the development process. Methods of using Database Advisor in reference and instruction, and information about the source code will also be presented. I invite you to take a look at Database Advisor at: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/Proj/dba/.