Why are databases and ebooks better than a free web search engine like Google?
Google is best if you’re looking for non-academic information, like the latest sports or music news or the price of a car that you’re interested in buying. But for locating reliable academic information, Google isn’t so useful. It will direct you to websites authored by people who may or may not be giving you the correct information. How can you tell if the information is good? Well, you can’t. Our databases and ebooks, on the other hand, will give you information that is reliable, written by experts and appropriate for research. Databases and ebooks are also faster and easier to use than a free web search engine like Google. Google will give you 500,000 returns for your search…and most of those returns are links to commercial websites that won’t have reliable, homework-appropriate information. Why search through so many inappropriate returns when the database will give you 5-20 good returns? To Access All Databases and EBooks, click on the Media Center Homepage Click on the icon above
