Best Bets is an index of the top 100 search queries from our Library website. The 100 top searches include everything put into the main search box on the home page, not just our website search. There is no automatic mechanism for updating this index; the list will be reviewed biannually and adjusted accordingly. This is the approach that NCSU is — or was, anyway — using for their best bets, which is where we got the idea in the first place.

The Best Bets database has a simple administrative interface where best bets can be added, modified or deleted.

See our post on the bento/single search for more information about our search results.

Below is a list of the items that are currently in best bets:

• AGRICOLA
• APA citation style
• ARTstor
• Academic Search Premier
• Ancestry
• Avery index to architectural periodicals
• BIOSIS previews
• Business Source Complete
• CAB abstracts
• CEIC data manager
• Chicago Manual of Style
• China data online
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Cornell University Library Hours
• EconLit
• Factiva
• Google Scholar
• Harvard Business Review
• Hooever’s online: the business network
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• IBISWorld
• IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
• INSPEC
• JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association
• JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive
• Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
• LexisNexis Academic
• MLA international bibliography
• MathSciNet
• MedLine
• Mintel marketing intelligence
• Nature
• Naxos music library
• New York Times
• Oxford English Dictionary
• PassKey
• ProQuest Research Library
• ProQuest dissertations and theses
• ProQuest historical newspapers
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• PsycINFO
• PubMed
• RefWorks
• Report a Problem
• SciFinder
• Science magazine
• ScienceDirect Journals
• SpringerLink Contemporary (1997 – Present)
• VIVO. Research and expertise across Cornell
• Web of Science
• Wiley InterScience Journals
• WorldCat