Comprehensive database for religious and theological scholarship. Contains citations from 600+ international journal articles, plus full-text for around 60+ titles. Also indexes book reviews, multi-authored works, and the Methodist Reviews Index.
Academic Search Premier is a general database that contains both popular and scholarly articles from a variety of disciplines and sources. Great place to start if you need to confirm the viability of a topic.
The tips in this video will apply to most other EBSCO databases as well, including SocINDEX, ERIC, , and more. Subject specific databases like those may have some special features like unique limiters, but otherwise they will function the same way. The name of the database will be listed above the search bar:
Each database is going to have a different focus and strength. To be succesful, you are going to have to try more than one of these.
JSTOR is a general database that contains primarily full-text scholarly articles from a variety of disciplines. It differs from other UD databases in the fact that it searches the entire full-text of the articles, but has few options for limiting searching and no subject headings. This database is particularly useful when you already know some specifics about your topic.