Title: Exercise 1.2d: Full text databases
Course: MSc level academic and professional (information) skills > Section: Part 1. Information skills, Plagiarism and Referencing

Most literature databases search for words in the title, the abstract and the keywords. Some databases offer more: it is possible to search in the full text of the articles and/or e-books. These are all databases produced by one publisher. That is also their main disadvantage: having limited content, covering only the articles (e-books) of one publisher.

 At the University of Twente you have access to the following multidisciplinary full text databases:

- Science Direct: only the content of publisher Elsevier.
- Springerlink: only the content of publisher Springer.
- Wiley Interscience: only the content of publisher Wiley.
- Oxford Journals: only the content of publisher Oxford.

If you want to search in the full text you have to use all these separate databases, they can’t be combined.
Some databases for a few disciplines also offer the possibility of full text searching. E.g.:

- IEEE Xplore: IEEE content (electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications and computer science)

For your discipline, see your Subject Guide.