Multidisciplinary databases have a wide scope of resources, cover many different subject areas, offer a variety of source types (articles, book reviews, conference papers, etc.). Use multidisciplinary databases to find diverse sources on your topics from various academic disciplines in one place.
Subject specific databases have a much narrower focus than multidisciplinary databases. Subject specific databases can focus on a particular area of scholarship (e.g. Psychology), a particular time period (e.g. the Renaissance), or a specific type of source (e.g. primary sources). These types of databases are useful when you have a specific topic and some knowledge of the research on it. Sources in these databases will be specific and often will be very narrow in their focus, rather than broad.
Citation information including abstracts for international research in linguistics and related disciplines.
Citations and abstracts of scholarly journals, dissertations, books, and conference papers in the social and behavioural sciences.