What makes an ITP Library database different from and better than searching the Web?
Databases...
-Have carefully selected topic- or field-oriented content from journals, books, and sometimes scholarly Web sites.
-Usually identify an article as peer-reviewed if applicable. Some databases allow you to narrow to peer-reviewed at the outset.
-Usually have been given subject headings or descriptors to help make searching and retrieving easier.
-Allow complex boolean searching (e.g. searching for a keyword in the title field, and searching for a particular age population in the age field, and a particular journal name in the journal
field).
-Will include full-text content to save or print if available as part of a library subscription.
-Usually include full citation, abstract, and additional important fields.
-Often have features that allow you to save a list, format in APA, email it to yourself.
