Databases at the Reference Desk

Most frequently recommended with limits for scholarly, peer reviewed

• Thomson Gale
  • most popular InfoTrac OneFile
  • if you want to retrieve encyclopedia articles also remember to select Gale Virtual Library.  If you are also searching the article databases the use of limit to scholarly will EXCLUDE the encyclopedia references
  • Thomson Gale Powersearch selects all 10 cross searchable databases and starts up with the Advanced Search screen to enter
  • Thomson Gale databases starts with the selected list of Thomson Gale databases for you to submit or deselect ones you do NOT want to search.
• Proquest databases
• EbscoHost
• Wilson Web
• Note: There are other databases such as ScienceDirect, Project Muse, JSTOR, AnthroSource, ACS publications, AIP Physics that are mostly comprised of peer reviewed articles with NO limits available or necessary.

Most likely to teach interfaces-links to "i" pages

• CSUN Innovative Catalog
• Thomson Gale Infotrac - 11 databases, 10 are cross searchable. 

• InfoTrac OneFile includes
• Literature Resource Center
• Gale Virtual Reference library -over 100 encyclopedias
• Proquest - 10  current cross searchable databases (including Proquest newsstand) and 4 historical crosssearchable databases. Historical and current databases cannot be chosen simultaneously
• EbscoHost
• Lexis
• FirstSearch
• CSA
• FirstSearch
• WilsonWeb
• RLG - 3 databases including Chicano Database
• PubMed

Databases Unique to CSUN

• MetaSearch offers database recommendations for 63 subject disciplines, and personal web space to save searches and records
• ISI custom Dialog search form to search Citation indexes. It requires account and password and further lookup for full information on the article

Simultaneous Searching -Mega retrievals

• MetaSearch can search up to 10 databases at a time and you can cross search database vendors such as Thomson Gale, Proquest, ScienceDirect, WilsonWeb, EbscoHost, CSA and more. However no extra refinements-hard to identify the scholarly or the full text but there is a uniform interface, a place to save search strategies, and records
• Thomson Gale - currently has 10 cross searchable database
• Proquest has
• EbscoHost
• WilsonWeb has 14 databases-WilsonOmnifile( AST,ILP, BAI plus RG,SSI, HI, GSI, EI, Business), Biography Index, Book Review Digest, Art Index, Library Lit, Reader's Guide Retrospective
• CSA has 6 databases-ERIC, LLBA, Philosopher's Index, Physical Education Index, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts
• NLM databases

Databases A-Z annotated list

• PDF file for Electronic Resources Fall 2006