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WRT 101/102 - M. Young : MegaSearch and other Article Databases

What is a database?

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer)

Sources published by well-known publishing companies, universities, research groups, etc.  -- such as:

  • scholarly articles
  • popular articles
  • trade journals
  • ebooks
  • conference proceedings
  • reports
  • primary sources

 

MegaSearch

ProQuest Research Library

Newspapers

Flipster

Searching Megasearch

Searching Newspaper Databases

Searching the Controversial Issue Databases