About Databases
What is a Database?
"A research database contains reliable, accurate, and authoritative information gathered in one place, and provides quick and convenient access to the information" (Scituate Town Library, 2016).
Databases contain peer-reviewed sources, which are those articles that have already been reviewed and evaluated by experts before being published.
Types of Sources You Can Access:
- Reference materials
- Biographies
- Experiments
- Images
- Audio/Video
- Newspaper Articles
- Academic Journals Articles/Reports
- Popular and Scholarly Magazine Articles
- Book Reports
- And More!
Benefits of Using a Database:
- Access to peer-reviewed sources: someone already took the time to evaluate them for you
- Access to published information
- Access to full-text articles and completed citations in multiple formats
- Search produces results in multiple formats
- Receive a more manageable list of results than with a Google search (and the results are more relevant0
- Free and accessible from anywhere
- Multidisciplinary- useful for all subjects