Library Databases and Resources

Library databases are different from most search engines. How do they differ?

• The library pays to access these resources (that's why we log in through the library homepage)

• Databases can help get you to specific content related to your topic!

  • • You can search by topic keywords, author, title, or other criteria

    • You can easily limit/filter searches to get more relevant results

• The results that are returned:

  • Are usually trustworthy

  • Are organized and easy to sort

  • There are fewer overall results returned, but those returned will exclude more irrelevant results

  • Make full text more easily accessible

  • Can be limited to peer reviewed sources