I. Starting Places for Finding Electronic Resources
II. Look for Basic Features of Most Electronic Databases
- Coverage (starting and ending date, language, geographical treatment)
- Formats Covered (journals, books, conference papers, dissertations)
- Journal titles indexed
- Common features:
- keyword searching, controlled vocabulary, advanced searching using Boolean logic,
- limits by date, publication, field, etc.
- truncation (symbol varies: #, *, ?)
- display format, display order options
- record selection
- e-mailing, downloading, printing
- UC-elinks button directs user either to full-text if available to UCLA or to call number if available only in print.
III. Interdisciplinary Databases
IV. Subject Databases
V. Area Databases
- Quarterly Index of African Periodicals
- African HealthLine
- HAPI
- Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents – LAPTOC
