Explore your assigned database as a group. Prepare answers to the questions below. You will be presenting your database to the class and teaching them about it.
What different types of information can you find in this database? (E.g. books? Magazines? Photos? Interviews.)
Can you read the articles immediately, or do you have to use interlibrary loan or Find it?
How can you narrow down a search? Looking at hundreds of results will take too long, experiment with different ways to get more specific (fewer) results
What questions do you have about this database? What’s confusing/difficult?
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
You can search all databases available on the Web of Science platform at one time. This includes, Web of Science Core Collection, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, KCI-Korean Journal Database, Russian Science Citation Index, and SciELO Citation Index.
Web of Science Core Collection includes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1993-present)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1993-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1993-present)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015-present)
Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. For access to FindIt off campus or on wireless devices add the University of Minnesota Duluth to your Library Links in the Google Scholar settings
Ei Compendex is a broad engineering literature database available with over 20 million indexed records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines.
