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What is a library database?

A library database is a subscription-based, searchable electronic collection of resources.

• A database may contain scholarly journals, newspapers, trade journals, magazine, newspapers, e-books, or more.
• There are over 110 different databases in our collection and each one is different and contains different resources.

There are:

• Subject Specific Databases that specific to one subject area, such as Criminal Justice Abstracts covering criminal justice topics.
• Multidisciplinary Databases cover a wide range or topics. A database like JSTOR covers subjects from Art to Zoology, and basically everything in between.

A complete listing of databases with descriptions can be found in the Annotated A-Z Database List.