Theresa Burress
Liaison Librarian for Sciences,
St. Petersburg campus
tburress@usf.edu
727-873-4977
Additional tips
Don’t limit yourself to one discipline—check databases in several related areas
Consider searching multiple databases at once to see which sources might be the most useful
Use Google to locate relevant government sites for reports and statistical data by limiting your search to site:.gov or site:.fl.us
Dissertations can provide good literature reviews as well as focused data
If you find a useful source, check Google Scholar for its “cited by” links
Finding More Articles
Once you locate a useful article, you may want to look for articles that have cited that work after it was published. This may yield additional useful resources for your own research. Google Scholar and Web of Science are excellent sources for identifying "cited by" references.
Limit Google results to scholarly materials. If you are off-campus and not signed in with your NetID, you may not have access to many articles available through the library.
Web of Science is comprised of three files: Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index , and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Each may be searched separately or as one.
Web of Science belongs to the family of Web of Knowledge(WOK) databases and may be search independently or as a group of WOK databases including BIOSIS and Zoological Record.