Research How: Information Literacy Toolbox: Subjects & Resources

Each database may have different features that will expedite your searches.
Look at links and/or icons for these functions:

• In some you can create a free account to save citations, searches, or research for later review.
• Use the built-in citation generators
• You can often e-mail citations or the full-text to yourself or a colleague.
• See if the database allows you to export a citation directly into RefWorks or another bibliographic management program.

When searching discipline or subject-specific resources, you may find that:

• ...you need to change the terminology/keywords you are using to better fit that discipline or profession 
• ...the articles are written in technical and scholarly language
• ...you need to refine the search strategy more than once
• ...you need to search across multiple subjects
• ...some of the subject specific resources, are also format specific; some resources will ONLY contain scholarly articles or media or newspaper articles or conference proceedings, etc