Sunday, April 17, 2011

My Preferred Databases

The UT libraries website has a number of great resources.  Conducting a few brief searches on some of the databases, I think that—in terms of this paper—the Literature Resource Center and MLA International Bibliography will be the most useful.  Both provide a number of search options and seem to have a large selection of scholarly sources.  The LRC includes many of the articles in PDF format on their site without needing to link to another outside database like EBSCO.  MLA International, however, does provide links back to the libraries' website for locating a hardcopy in the event that it is not available online, which is helpful.  And MLA seems better equipped for refining searches in-process and locating related topics through links in the descriptors.  So, I am leaning towards the latter database.

As an accounting major, ProQuest's accounting and tax database looks to be extremely helpful.  It is well formatted, clean without being overly simplistic, and provides nice advanced search options. There are journals on related topics as well as current news articles that with be extremely usefully to me during my career at UT following and exploring practical examples of accounting and business processes, principles, and important developments in the field.  

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