Database Manager Advice

[JR Texas]

Hi......maybe you can help me out. I need to manage a database for scholars. Specifically, I want to create a list of scholars worldwide and include: name, affiliation, specialization, email, address, etc.

Then I want to search the database to locate a scholar with a specific specialization.

For example, John Doe might be at Harvard. He might specialize in rural religious symbols and mythology in the Sudan.

Jane Doe might be at Stanford. She might specialize in migration patterns in southern India.

Now. I need to contact a scholar who specializes in mythology in Sudan. I go to the search engine and type in BOTH mythology and Sudan........out pops John Doe.

This will be a very large database. I need to search with multiple search words, not just one.

Is there a free program out there I can use? Thanks.

[singa-traz]

Many different ways to do what you described:

- Gmail: Contact, add your scholar as your contact, and you can do a search as you mentioned

- LinkedIn: Create a group and you can also do the search

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or http://www.openoffice.org/

[raro]

try MS Outlook in combination with Copernic. Or maybe just with the categories that Outlook provides. I have about 4,000 contacts in my database and Copernic finds them within milliseconds

[JR Texas]

try MS Outlook in combination with Copernic. Or maybe just with the categories that Outlook provides. I have about 4,000 contacts in my database and Copernic finds them within milliseconds

As far as I know, Outlook only searches one keyword at a time.........e.g., migration. I want to search several: migration, India, violence, etc.

I tried OpenOffice and could not figure out how to work it........(sorry, no little about computers).

Copernic.......no idea.......I will search for it on download.com

If Outlook can search using multiple search words, please tell me how. Thanks.