There are many reasons to search for information in library databases for your research projects.

• Databases are designed with the needs of academic researchers in mind, and make finding relevant articles among the huge amount of published scholarly literature much quicker and more effective.
• Some databases are discipline-specific and contain specialized subject matter.
• Discipline-specific databases have unique features and controlled vocabularies, built specifically for searching in that discipline!

Learn more about how databases that may be useful for your coursework below!

Additional databases for different subject areas can be found using UTL's Subjects A-Z page.

If you find an article through one of the databases listed above, accessing the full PDF of an article is often as simple as clicking a "Get Full Text" or "Get it at UTL" link in the article record. Whether you're on or off campus, you'll need to sign in with your UTORid and password to connect to online resources like articles that we have licenses to access at U of T. This proves to the publisher that you are a U of T student and should have access to the content.

Still having trouble accessing an article, or found it through a different method than database searching? Try the tips below!