Skip to Main Content

Getting Started with Science Research: Recommended Databases

Finding Databases

The Brooklyn College Library subscribes to over 400 different article databases and although OneSearch searches a lot of them at the same time, it doesn’t search all of them.


From the Library’s website, click on the Databases link.

  

 

One of the options ("Browse Databases by Title") will present you with an A-Z list of all the databases the Library subscribes to.

 

Try searching several (or all) of the databases below to look for articles in scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals. They are all accessible from the A-Z list.

Multi-disciplinary databases (cover a lot of different subjects):

  • Academic Search Complete
  • JSTOR
  • Proquest
  • Project Muse
  • SAGE Premier
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
  • Wiley Online

Subject-specific databases: Choose the best fit based on your own topic

In choosing one of the subject-specific databases, think about the focus of your topic. If you're studying the emotional and psychological effects of trauma in families, PsycINFO would be a good database to try. If you're writing about population health outcomes, MEDLINE Complete might be a good choice for your search. Explore different disciplines and databases to see which give you the best articles for your interests.