Source Types: scholarly/academic journal articles, magazine articles, ebooks, conferences.
Result organization: By relevance.
Limiters available: People, publication, conference, date.
Ease of understanding source types: Somewhat
Full text access? Yes, through a PDF link on the results and summary pages.
Tip: When you enter the database, click on the Digital Library link at the top of the page and then the Advanced Search link.
Tip: It is difficult to refine by multiple items.

Source Types: scholarly/academic journal articles, trade/magazine articles, news articles, country reports, industry profiles, market research, SWOT analyses, working papers, book reviews.
Result organization: By newest date, but can change to author, source, or relevance.
Limiters available: date published, source type, scholarly/academic/peer-review, full-text online, geography, NAICS/Industry.
Ease to distinguish source types? Yes, there are icons.
Full-text access? Yes, there is full-text access for many articles.
Tip: Focuses on business information, rather than other topics like politics and the media.
Tip: It isn't super intuitive and you have to work to narrow your results.

Source Types: Scholarly/academic journal articles, trade/magazine articles, conferences, and books/ebooks.
Result organization: By relevance, with options for date, title, and number of citations.
Limiters available: Date published, source type, author, affiliation, publisher, title, and conference location.
Ease to distinguish source types? Yes.
Full text access? Yes, there is a PDF link.
Tip: It would be primarily helpful when looking for current computer science information.
Tip: Well organized.

Source Types: Scholarly/academic journal articles, chapters from books
Result organization: By relevance or date.
Limiters available: Date published
Ease to distinguish source types? Yes.
Full text access? Yes, there is a link to view full text in most cases.
Tip: It is good for broad or general searching across subjects and source types.
Tip: Sometimes there are too many options and a lot to filter through, not everything displayed is what we have access to at Pitt.

Under Research tab:
Source Types: Trade articles
Result organization: Relevancy, with option for date.
Limiters available:Date published, subject, source type, region, vendor, industry, and analyst.
Easy to distinguish source types? Somewhat.
Full text access? Yes, the full text of each article is available in the database.
Tip: Best for technology based research.