GALILEO vs Libguides

Finding information on a research question specific to a database.
Database name - Computer and Information Systems Abstracts

What was your research question? 
What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence in our day to day life in the future

What were your keywords (search terms)?
Artificial Intelligence, daily, future, life

What do you think of the results you got? Were they relevant? Were they scholarly? Did you get too few results? Too many?
I did the search and got 11 results. 9 of the results were scholarly journals and others were articles. The results were too little and only few of the results were relevant to my search.

What is the difference between searching in a subject specific database and in Discovery (the tool that searches a bunch of databases at once)?
It was clear after the search above, that a subject specific search narrows down the scope of a research to a tiny window compared to the same search in Discovery. Same search in Discovery gave me around 60,000 results. Also I had the option to narrow down my search which was a luxury I didn't have in a subject specific search when provided with too few results.

When do you think you’d want to use a subject specific database over Discovery (and the other way around?)
I would use Discovery to get a brief understanding of the research topic I have so that I can decide to go further or not. It will be very useful in presearching point of a research.
Using a subject specific database to get information would be only feasible when you are decided on the topic and want to go more deep into the subject.

Using Libguide


What research guide did you choose? (Paste the link to that guide in your blog post.)
http://libguides.westga.edu/computerscience

What do you think a research guide is?
A feature similar to a catalog on where to find relevant information related to the topic.

How does a research guide compare to the list of resources you found in GALILEO? Which one (research guide or GALILEO subject guide) do you think you’d be more apt to use if you were working on a research project?
A research guide gives more focused information on a subject and it seems very useful with all the links provided. Also at the same time the research guide puts a boundary to the extent we can do research on. Its more like a limited source of information compared to GALILEO. I would feel much efficient working with GALILEO rather than a subject specific research guide which has a limited scope.
I also think a research should be done with an innovative state of mind, using a guide might defeat the purpose.