What types of material does it contain?
Can you imagine a use case for this particular database?
In this database, what are strategies or tools you would use to narrow your search? To broaden it?
Does the database provide full text access to materials?
What fields are searchable? For example, “title/abstract,” “geography,” “ISBN.”
What can you sort the results by? (e.g relevance,date, etc.)
Can you export citations?
Any other highlights or things you noticed/learned?
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Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to selected JSTOR e-books.
Searches multiple literary sources, including: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series, and Twayne's Authors Series. Scroll down to click on Gale's Literary Index, a master index to the major literature products published by Gale.
Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-present, plus a selected number of other e-book titles.