Informational Databases

     Before technology, you had to walk to your local library and search through books on shelves to find information about something. You would be flipping through index's in large heavy textbooks hoping the library even contains the information you need. Luckily, I live in a much more fortunate time of online libraries and databases. The internet is not only a place for anyone to gather information, but to also discuss and share information. Sometimes information being shared may not be true, making this an unreliable source for your projector whatever it may be. 

    Therefor, knowing where to find a good informational database is important. As a college student, I often use my school library website to and use the databases on there. I have three top informational databases I use: Gale in Context, EBSCO host, and JSTOR online library. 


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    Gale in context is my favorite informational database and the one I have used the most. It has a lot of great articles on different topics. This website is easy to use and visually appealing too. You can choose the content type for example if you wanted a newspaper article you have the option to choose that or magazines, academic journals, videos, biographies, etc. 

    EBSCO host is another database I have found through my school library, to be very helpful. Its an online library website where you chose 3 key words to search for exactly what information you need. This website also has an 24/7 online chat you can enter called "Ask-a-librarian" if you need any additional help.

    Finally, JSTOR is a great online source I have found. This is a digital library for scholars, researchers and students. This database provides access to more than twelve million acedemic journal articles, books and primary sources in seventy-five disciplines. 

Having these informational databases makes it easy to get good and solid info for any kind of project!

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