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The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.
Ancestry.com. For-profit genealogy company. Databases include Find a Grave, RootsWeb, a free genealogy community, and Newspapers.com. Archives.gov. US National Archives and Records Administration. Free online repository with a section dedicated to genealogical research [ 1] BALSAC. Population database of Quebec, Canada. Cyndi's List.
User-generated database of comparison between original tracks and covers, or songs that use samples. 460,000. 150,000. SIMUC. Chilean music and musicians. SIMUC is a Non-profit organisation that collects data on composers, academics, institutions, people and other topics related to classical music and Chile .
Interment.net. Internet Archive. Internet Broadway Database. Internet Movie Cars Database. Internet Movie Firearms Database. Internet Off-Broadway Database. Internet Public Library. Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Internet Theatre Database.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [ 3][ 4] Brewster Kahle, [ 5] Alexis Rossi, [ 6] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6] and Rebecca Malamud, [ 6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
Where present, metadata can be used as search criteria. So for example, in addition to a basic search, [4] an advanced search facility allows users to search for theses by publication year, awarding body, author's given name, surname, thesis title, doctoral advisor and various other metadata. [18]
FreeBMD. FreeBMD is a website which coordinates and provides free transcriptions of the indexes to births, marriages and deaths (BMD) held by the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO). It also provides a free search function and online access to images of the pages of the BMD indexes. The website was founded in 1998.
Database index. A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure. Indexes are used to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a database table every time said table is accessed.