Biology Article Retrieval from Various Databases: Making Good Choices with Limited Resources.

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  • D. Yvonne Jones

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https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2021

Abstract

If the top tier indexing resource in a discipline is not available on an ongoing basis for undergraduate student use, can acceptable article retrieval be obtained using other available resources or combinations of resources? This paper examines a single search term comparison of the biological research literature retrieved from BIOSIS Previews as well as eight other databases: BasicBIOSIS, ArticleFirst, ECO, ProQuest, WilsonWeb, SciFinder Scholar, HighWire, and MEDLINE. Comparison is also made with results from the recently available beta version of Google Scholar. A combination of databases yielded a result rate of 59% of the most recent eight years of BIOSIS results. A 51% return rate compared with BIOSIS could be obtained from searching only two major interfaces, the FirstSearch provider for ArticleFirst and ECO along with SciFinder Scholar. Google Scholar provided a 56% retrieval in comparison with the most recent BIOSIS results. A significant benefit of the Google Scholar search was the sizable number (N=69) of additional articles retrieved that were not found in BIOSIS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2005-11-17

How to Cite

Jones, D. Y. (2005). Biology Article Retrieval from Various Databases: Making Good Choices with Limited Resources. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (44). https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2021

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