This document discusses various databases and search engines for research, comparing their subject coverage, size, date ranges, search features, and full text availability. It provides details on multidisciplinary databases like Web of Science and Scopus as well as subject-specific databases in various fields like life sciences, engineering, environment, medicine, chemistry, education, and more. It emphasizes choosing tools based on search needs and highlights features like citation searching, thesauri, limitations, and ways to stay updated.