Article Databases
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Article Databases
By: Sarah MahoneyLIS 6120 – Access to Information
Professor Pecoskie
Geographical Library Reference
It is a collection of
organized data that primarily consists of articles.
These are typically in a computer.
Just what is an article database?
Narrowing of focus: Article databases allow
librarians and patrons to look for scholarly sources within a more narrow topic. This eliminates sources from other disciplines that are not relevant.
Faster searching: Databases help the user find important information quicker with the use of their search engines and limiters.
Reliable sources: Most article databases have a limiter for scholarly (peer-reviewed) materials. This enables the user to find trustworthy sources.
What’s so important about article databases?
GeoRef AGRICOLA GreenFILE Scirus JSTOR
Databases that work best for geography:
This database was created by the American
Geosciences Institute in 1966. It contains over three million references: books,
journal articles, reports, theses, maps, and more. Resources cover North America from 1669 to the
present day, and the rest of the world from 1933 to the present day.
Subjects covered include: economic geology, environmental geology, geochemistry, geophysics, oceanography, paleontology, seismology, and more.
GeoRef
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/georef-set-c.shtml
This is the National
Library of Agriculture database.
It searches for articles and books in all areas of agriculture, forestry, and animal science and spans from 1970 to present day.
Contains nearly five million citations.
AGRICOLA
http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/agricola
GreenFILE searches for information in all areas
related to the human impact on the environment.
Some examples of topics covered: global warming, pollution, renewable energy and recycling.
Information available includes articles, government information, books, and book reviews.
Includes more than 9,100 full text resources and abstracts and indexing for more than 612,000 resources.
GreenFILE
http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/greenfile
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific
search engine. It works similarly to Google, but searches for
articles, scientist’s homepages, patent information and information from scientific websites.
Has indexed over 545 million scientific items.
Scirus
Provides searchable full text of many of the
core research and academic society published journals in almost all subject areas, with an emphasis in the humanities and social sciences.
The majority of JSTOR’s content is academic and peer-reviewed.
Contains over 19,000 titles.
JSTOR
Although these may be the article databases
best suited for searching in the field of geography, many others contain materials pertaining to the topic as well.
Be sure to check your local and academic libraries to see what they provide and check out any subject guides they might have!
And many more!