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ECON 325 - Prices, Property, and the Problem of the Commons: Resources
SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Environment Complete contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
The databases listed above are tools for research. How do they stack up? Try searching: valuation AND water. Then evaluate the results according to the following questions:
How would you characterize the search results, according to number and relevance? Is it mostly economics, or other disciplines too?
Does it contain the most recent issues of journals? What was the most recent journal article result?
Does the database include working papers? Books?
Does it contain journals likely to publish research on your topic? For example, does it index articles in the Journal of Environmental Economics & Management?
Does it search the full text of articles?
Can you identify what publications have cited an article?
Reference sources
These are good places to get overviews of research topics
