How is a database organized?
Databases organize information into records, each of which represents a single unit of information, such as a bibliographic citation for a journal article, a book, a paper presented at a conference, a dissertation, or a complete report.
If a database contains ten (10) journal articles, one (1) dissertation, and one (1) conference paper, the database contains twelve (12) records.
Here is an example of a record (this is an article from the journal Teaching Children Mathematics) from a database called ERIC:
