Database Guides

How to navigate specific databases.

Citation searching
A number of databases provide the means of determining where a particular work or author has been cited by other authors in other works, frequently allowing...
Wed, 13 Apr, 2022 at 3:57 PM
Finding articles within a given topic
If you want to do a general search for articles within a particular topic, you can select subject-specific (or multidisciplinary) indexes from our list of d...
Wed, 13 Apr, 2022 at 4:56 PM
Finding literature reviews
Certain databases allow you to limit a search by document type, and in some cases this is a way to find publications that are themselves reviews of the lite...
Wed, 8 Feb, 2023 at 4:34 PM
How can I set my Google Scholar preference to search TC and CU e-resources?
Use the familiar Google search to search for the full text of scholarly articles available through Teachers College and Columbia University Libraries. Star...
Thu, 14 Apr, 2022 at 10:57 AM
Online Databases
Databases are collections of online resources that can include multiple publication formats and information types. There are databases of books, images, pri...
Thu, 14 Apr, 2022 at 3:23 PM