SCAND 155 - Danish Literary and Cultural History - Winter 2019: Bibliographic Databases

Bibliographic databases collect and organize references to published literature within a particular discipline or in a particular format, and are generally the best tool for finding scholarly articles but also include references to non-scholarly articles, books, book chapters, newspaper articles, etc. Keep in mind that a source need not be scholarly (i.e. peer reviewed or published in a scholarly publication) to be useful in scholarly work. It is important to keep discipline in mind when selecting a database; a science database will not be particularly useful when researching literature, for example. Links in bibliographic databases often provide direct access to full text; if not, look up the journal or book title in UW Libraries Search for access.