What you’ll find here: EDS is our largest and most comprehensive database, with information from a large variety of sources and content in all disciplines. It covers materials contained in most of our other article databases, as well as books in the library catalog. If you don;t know where to start, this is the best choice.
How to search this database: Look at the EBSCOhost help page.
What you’ll find here: a Geographic Information System allowing users to create custom demographic maps, tables, and reports. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores, labor data such as unemployment, and crime statistics, such as city crime rates. We have recently upgraded the library's license to include Community Health Reports.
How to search this database: Visit the PolicyMap Tutorial Page.
There are a variety of databases you might want to search. Which one works best will often depend on the situation.
EDS and Google Scholar are broad databases with information on almost any topic. A database that focuses on medical information like MEDLINE or CINAHL might have more articles from the perspective of medical practitioners, while business databases like ABI Inform might have articles about management and administration.
