Research databases are collections of digitized articles, essays, reviews, books and other material. Some databases are subject specific, while others are more general in scope.
You will often use these databases when conducting research
This database will be particularly helpful as you work on your debate.
Academic Search Premier contains full-text articles and abstracts to over 8,000 journals, making it one of the library's largest general databases.
Use Access World News to find newspaper and magazine articles from thousands of local, national and international news sources.
InfoTrac contains a mix of full-text articles and abstracts on a variety of topics.
JSTOR is another multidisciplinary database that provides thousands of articles on a variety of topics.
To find relevant articles in any library research database, you'll have to use some strategic tactics. These tactics will vary depending on what you're trying to find.
To conduct a successful keyword search, you'll want to think of several words or short phrases that you can use to describe your research topic.
Subject searching requires you to use specific search terms that have been assigned to articles in the database. When you use a subject search, you will have fewer results than a keyword search, but often, these results are more relevant to your topic.