This box searches all of WorldCat which is the Busse Library's catalog system. It is automatically set to search the all libraries holdings not just our library's holdings. This means it will bring back items that are most relevant to your search, but may not be available in our collection. To see if something is available in our collection,
WorldCat is particularly great for searching for physical items found in our collection like books and DVDs. It is also great for searching for eBooks found across our collections.
This box searches all of our EBSCO Database holdings. EBSCO is one of our largest databases that covers multiple disciplines and is a great place to search for peer-reviewed articles and academic journals. It is a great place to start when doing a research assignment or project.
In a hurry? EBSCO allows you to limit your results to full text articles and pull back results that are immediately available to you. If you are interested in something that isn't available among our holdings, you can request it via interlibrary loan.
This box shows you some of our other database alternatives to EBSCO including, Westlaw, Sage, ScienceDirect, Wiley, Cochrane, Ovid, and PubMed. These databases tend to be more specialized than EBSCO and good for a particular subject or field.
For example, Cochrane is an excellent source for medicine and health-care related material, but I would not recommend searching it for resources for your education paper.
Google Scholar is different than Google which searches scholarly literature using a similar search format to Google [x]. Google Scholar can be more forgiving than a database like EBSCO or ScienceDirect when it comes to keyword searching so it may be more approachable and easier to use if you are struggling in your search to find scholarly literature.
However!
You may run into problems such as obtaining access to articles--there isn't an easy filter to full access content like there is with our database subscriptions--or with determining if an item is peer reviewed or not. You may find that an item linked is the pre-print item or has not been peer-reviewed yet.