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Geography of Food: Plants that Feed the World

This Library Research Guide supports GEO3315 and PLS2003 and others exploring issues of global agriculture.

How to Find Journal Articles

Journal articles can be found in a variety of places:

Recommended Databases

Academic Articles:

Agricultural Statistics, Fact Sheets, and Technical Reports:

Botany Data:

Explore all of the databases available from the Libraries at Databases A-Z.

Google Tips

 

      

Google Scholar is a subset of Google, focusing on scholarly literature. It is a fast & broad internet search engine with little mediation. Results include grey literature such as preprints, theses & dissertations, and white papers that have not been peer reviewed. Use the Advanced Search to develop a more explicit search. Use capital letters for Boolean search operators (AND, OR) and the minus symbol for NOT. You can export individual results or create a free profile to save and export folders of results to citation managers. Click "Related articles" or "Cited by" to see closely related work, or search for author's name and see what else they have written. If UF has a subscription to the journal, click on Find it@UF or click on the title to open up the full text. Google Scholar does not offer extensive options to refine the vast results. The results are also not reproducible, in that they vary from date and location searched. Try comparing results with one of the databases the libraries subscribe to!

A few search tips for Google Scholar:

  • Add site limiters to your search:
  • site:.gov for government publications
  • site:.edu for publications from educational institutions
  • Use quotes for exact matches to phrases
  • Exclude terms by using the minus symbol (-) such as: jaguar speed -car

 

 

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