1. What's your assignment?
2. Kinds of info you may need
3. Find books and scholarly articles
4. Tools to help with citing sources
Library databases include information that is not on the free web. Tulane pays for access to databases on your behalf.
Databases organize information and provide a variety of ways to search.
Abstracts, keywords, and subject headings help you quickly determine if the article is useful
Databases will allow you to limit your results to peer-reviewed journals, which can take some of the guess work out of identifying which journals you can use.
