Academic databases are online platforms that contain searchable resources such as journal articles, data sets, and ebooks. Unlike Google or Google Scholar, academic databases organise the resources they contain using structured index terms that you can use to help you to build robust and focused searches to quickly find the information you need.
UniSQ Library Search is a great starting point when looking for information for your assignments. For more focused searching, you should use the academic databases that best suit your search question. For some assignments, you may need to search across multiple databases to find the information you need.