Begin by thinking about your search. Databases are electronic collections of information about articles that have been published in certain selected magazines and journals.
Electronic indexes provide only citations to books or articles.
Other databases will provide only a citation and lengthy abstract of articles. And other databases are full text, meaning the actual contents of an article are available completely online. If a promising article is not full-text online, Dordt may have a subscription to the print version of the magazine or journal, or you could request it through Interlibrary Loan. Many print indexes are valuable for locating sources on a subject. The electronic databases only go back so far, so the specialized print indexes will have material not easily found online.