Research Guides: HIST 100: Soundscapes and Societies (Fall 2025): Why We Use Specialized Databases

DIfferent Tools for Different Jobs

Compare the same search in different databases.

Librar* AND (design OR architecture) AND (Sound OR acoustics)

America: History & Life with Full Text
Provides full text coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes nearly 200 journals and 100 books, selective indexing for over 1,700 journals, and abstracts in English of foreign language articles.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

PRIMO (main library catalog)
searches articles in about 60% of our databases
Library & Information Science Source
Library & Information Science Source was developed to meet the needs of librarians, information professional and students. Content includes full text for more than 460 publications and indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage encompasses librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. In addition, Library & Information Science Source provides comprehensive coverage of the history of library studies.