Title: Exercise1.2b: Number of results
Course: MSc level academic and professional (information) skills > Section: Part 1. Information skills, Plagiarism and Referencing

You must first read a database description in order to estimate if it contains a reasonable amount of results for you. This exercise is about estimating the number of results.

You want to find literature on Climate change.
The amount of results and their relation with “Climate change” strongly depend on the database character and the discipline aimed at.
The University Library offers multidisciplinary databases like Scopus and Web of Science, but also monodisciplinary databases. They mostly contain several document types (books, articles, reports, dissertations, …) and have extended coverage for the discipline aimed at. This exercise is about some of these databases.

How many results do you expect to find on Climate change in each of the following 5 databases: Business Source Elite, Eric, MathSciNet, Geobase and MedLine?
Read the description of the database, and make an estimate.

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