Discovery |
- A general search of the library's resources
- Testing a topic to see if there is enough material
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- Performing an advanced search for a narrow topic
- Quickly finding scholarly, peer-reviewed articles for a research paper
- Finding newspapers
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Academic Search Complete |
- Targeted searching of peer-reviewed articles
- Searching for a narrowed topic using AND, OR, and NOT (Boolean operators)
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- Finding books
- Finding newspapers
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ProQuest Central |
- Targeted searching of newspaper articles and some peer-reviewed articles
- Searching for a narrowed topic using AND, OR, and NOT (Boolean operators)
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- Finding ONLY peer-reviewed articles (ProQuest databases include Blogs and Websites as well as newspapers and trade journals. These ARE NOT scholarly resources)
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