Database Name |
Description |
What it is best for |
MLA International Bibliography | Covers Modern Languages & Literature |
Has the largest amount of Scholarly Published Journal articles and Book Collections of Essays Has the value added Subject Headings for : Themes, Types of Criticism, Geographic Area, Time Period, Genre Has a controlled vocabulary for searching |
Google Scholar | Covers Scholarly information on the Public Internet |
Is the best for unpublished Information Has a different algorithm that draws your attention to things that you may not have noticed in other databases, even when they were there Has the Cited by Function - You can look up one article and find where it was cited in a more recent article |
JSTOR | Major Scholarly Books and Journals |
Includes the major Journals in most fields - and books from a select group of scholarly publishers - so you know the content is good. Searches the Full Text - Best when you can't find your topics in an article title or Subject Heading |
WorldCat | Combined Library Catalogs of over 50,000 Libraries worldwide |
Includes the largest number of books published worldwide Allows you to search Chapter Titles for Writers and Works |