Catalogs are lists of materials an institution owns or to which
it has access. At Case Western Reserve University, the catalog
is EuclidPLUS.
EuclidPLUS includes information about print and electronic materials,
both monographic and serial.
Databases are collections of data organized for rapid search
and retrieval by a computer. In libraries they are primarily
bibliographic in nature, indexing journals, meetings and sometimes
books. An example of a database is PubMed.
Search engines look for information on the Web. Examples are
Google,
Yahoo, Dogpile
and Ask.com.
Sometimes search engines will locate reliable information from
books and journals.
To find reliable information from books and journals,
please consult one of the following catalogs and databases available
to Case Western Reserve University:
For more help, please contact the Reference Department at the Health Center Library at 216.368.3218, or at the Allen Library at 216.368.3640.
You may also send an email to Health Center Library Reference, (hclref@case.edu).
Please read the Acceptable
Use Policy.
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