10/8 Major Discipline

Find your major discipline in GALILEO (or a discipline that you are interested in) and search that subject page for a database you've never worked in before.

I went to GALILEO and searched under Social Sciences and clicked on the Law and Criminology section. From there I read through the various databases for a topic I have never worked in before. I looked under the Supreme Court Collection which took me to http://library.cqpress.com.ts.isil.westga.edu/SCC/  I thought this was really interesting because I have taken an American Criminal Courts class but wanted to learn more about the Supreme Court (well more than the few facts I learned in class). In this site it gives all kinds of information ranging from the history, current court, information on cases, the chronology of it, primary source documents, even gives links to the Supreme Court Encyclopedia. 

What do you think of the results you got? What is the difference between searching in a subject specific database and in Discovery (the tool that searches a bunch of databases at once)? When do you think you’d want to use one over the other?

I though the information that I found in the database I searched was good information but is kind of difficult to find exactly what I need. For this particular assignment it was just finding something that looks interesting, but for searching for the research question I keep getting overwhelmed with the search results. I noticed that in researching the subject specific database that it seems to cut out results of subjects that have research that tends to go together.

When looking for articles or books for the research project I prefer using the Discovery tool for searching because it allows me to refine the results to the exact type of information source that I want and also search for specific subjects.

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