The P.R.O.V.E.N. method is an easy way to remember what to look out for when you are evaluating whether the information you find on the Internet is credible.
What Is a Database?
Databases contain published materials such as articles from scholarly journals, chapters from books, encyclopedias, newspapers, book reviews, blog posts, audio, video, primary sources, documents, and so on.
Databases can easily be searched by using a variety of filters simultaneously such the type of document, date of publication, and by fields such as author, subject, title.
Different types of databases help you search for different types of information you might need for different purposes. For example, there are general databases, discipline specific databases, and newspaper databases.
This chart compares the features and functionality of Web sites and databases.
