BookWhere provides access to
important information for your research, from commercial bibliographic databases to online
card catalogs. You can instantly access online databases such as MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and
library card catalogs to find relevant references for your research. With BookWhere,
you can search multiple databases simultaneously, saving you time.
Using BookWhere is like searching a
"Virtual Union Catalog" of hundreds of libraries. You can search groups of
libraries, for example academic libraries that provide Inter Library Loan services to your
institution, or special libraries in medicine, engineering, law and other disciplines, or
all public libraries in a region.
For example, if you are
researching the legal implications of an increased incidence of the AIDS in US prisons,
you can use BookWhere to identify sourceworks
beyond what is available locally. You might want to include these sources in the
"further reading" section of your manuscript, or pursue alternative methods
(Interlibrary loan, for instance, or amazon.com) of
adding these sources to the background material for your project.
