The nice thing about searching this database is the excellent searching features. You can limit your search to what Immaculata subscribes to, you can search for only peer-reviewed, or scholarly, materials, and you can limit to full text information only. It is searchable by individual journal title or by subject. With the exact searching functions of Academic Abstracts Elite, this database has very user-friendly searching capabilities to allow you to do complicated searches, with the click of the mouse. There is no full text of the actual articles yet.
Documents are available in straight text, as images, or documents suitable for saving to disk.
If you wish to view the ERIC document as an image, it is necessary to download Adobe Acrobat Reader to your machine, a free, viewing software. It is an excellent database for teachers and administrators at every teaching level, including higher education. For more information, read about the EDRS E-Subscribe Service . Back to Top First Search FirstSearch is a collection of many different databases, some that index web sites, some newspapers, some journals in biology others index books. FirstSearch is a very powerful tool and is excellent for humanities research.