A database is a collection of abstracts, indexes, full text documents (ebooks, articles, statistics, conference papers), or digital media (images, video, audio, maps). Content is created and managed by publishers and / or indexing services, and searching is hosted by their own licensed platform or database vendors like Ebsco and ProQuest.
This is where most of your research will take you. Journal articles are stored in databases, and most content in databases is academic in nature.
While some databases are broad and multi-disciplinary in scope, most specialize in a given subject area. Click the Databases tile on the Library homepage and choose Medicine and Health from the "Subjects" list for a shortlist of recommended databases, or use the A-Z listing if you have a specific database in mind.
Click the Search Tips tab in this guide to learn how to use these tools.
