Multi-disciplinary database providing information for nearly every area of academic study. Includes an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, as well as additional journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Multidisciplinary subjects including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. 1965- present.
Once you get into a database, take some time to explore the various search options, play with drop-down menus, and figure out what features will be useful to you.
To refine your search, some helpful limiters include:
Databases do not rank search results by popularity, so try different keyword combinations. To search using multiple keywords, use Boolean operators:
From many databases, you can export your chosen results list directly to a bibliographic citation manager; if not, you can e-mail it to yourself. Citation managers can also help you format your citations into the right style for a bibliography and insert them into your paper as you compose. Be careful using "Cite" buttons that generate automatic citations. These are not always correct!
Some additional University of Maryland guides include: