Classical bibliographical databases have in general lostimportance compared with Internet search engines. It istoday an open question whether, for example, the tradi-tional thesaurus still has a role to fill in modern informa-tion retrieval (see Dextre Clarke and Vernau 2016). Hjør-land (2015a) argued however, that for serious scholarlypurposes it is important that users or intermediaries areable to control the search process. For such tasks, classi-cal databases seem to be the most advanced tools.
This is interesting. I like the encouragement/reinforcement of using all the tools at your disposal to retrieve information, not just search engines. I find depending on how niche the subject is, classical databases are certainly the way to go. You can't count on everything being digitized/archived online into an accessible database yet!