Now you should have an effective search string to run through the selected databases. Most abstract indexing databases that the library subscribes to are responsive to the advanced search characters listed in the example search. However, they may not respond in the same way to further advanced techniques like using the near operator to indicate word proximity to one another in the title and abstract. This will require some knowledge of the database-specific features and some manual work in the case that translation is needed from one database to another. Reach out to your librarian for more guidance if needed.
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Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.
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Updated weekly. The Web of Science Core Collection is a group of databases (Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index, 1900-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) that together cover more than 21,000 journals across all disciplines. The Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present) tracks thousands of additional journals that are being considered for inclusion in the main citation indexes. Other files track references from conference proceedings (1990-present) and citations to books (2005-present).
The Web of Science platform currently also provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record.
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Updated weekly. Provides access to over 36 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. Links to the full text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status.
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Updated monthly. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 sources, including international material selected from periodicals written in over 35 languages. Contains current chapter and book coverage with worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present, and adds over 60,000 references annually through monthly updates. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Has over 1.8 million individual records, some dating back to 1887.
For this type of comprehensive search, most librarians are going to advise against using Google Scholar, or perhaps against using only Google Scholar. This is because the tool is really more of a search engine than an abstract index. You should expect that Google Scholar will return a number of results so high that you would never be able to look through them all. This is because the search functionality doesn't allow you to be as precise as many library databases, which are consistent in their level of indexing and have increased specificity available in the fields you can search. Google Scholar will automatically cut off your search string if in excess of 256 characters. This is important to be aware of, because Google Scholar is not very explicit about this rule and will simply cut your search string and offer the results to that partial search.
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