What is the name of the database?
Project Muse
.what disciplines or areas does it cover?
African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Development Studies, Education, Film, Gender Studies, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre,
What dates are covered by the database?
From September 1990 to 4 November 2008
What kinds of materials does it contain?
Covers over 200 scholarly journals on humanities, social sciences and arts. Project Muse includes full text articles from over 220 peer-reviewed journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as well as 35 other academic publishers. Coverage includes the humanities, the social sciences and the arts.
What languages are the materials in?
English
How often is the database updated?
It doesn’t say
Is it available off-campus?
Yes it is available
Is full-text available?
Yes it is available
Second database:
What is the name of the database?
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
.what disciplines or areas does it cover?
Arabic Studies, Gender Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies,
What dates are covered by the database?
It is not available
What kinds of materials does it contain?
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. EWIC hopes both to offer the state of the art in the broad sweep of topics to inform the general audience and to take on cutting-edge issues to stimulate new research in new terrains.”
What languages are the materials in?
English
How often is the database updated?
It doesn’t say
Is it available off-campus?
Yes it is available
Is full-text available?
Yes it is available
Now compare the databases:
- Which database seems easier to use? How and why?
I think both of them are equally easy may be because I have used both of them a lot so I feel they are easy ;however encyclopedia provides more specific results
- Which database is better for quick research?
encyclopedia
- Which database is better for in-depth research?
Project Muse
- When would you use one database instead of the other?
If I need a quick results them directly answer my question and are clearly listed I use encyclopedia
- Anything else?
no
