FEBE- Mining & Mine Surveying: Databases & Finding Articles

Databases are collections of references to journal articles from many journals, chapters in books, reviews, conference proceedings,reports & in some cases, dissertations & theses.

Online databases are most useful for finding articles when you do not know in which journals articles are published.

In many cases databases include the full text of articles.

Go to the Library Homepage.

• Under Library Resources, click on Databases
• Select the required database from the list by scrolling down to the relevant title, or
• Click on the arrow under Choose Subject
• Click on the relevant database from the list that appears.
• Some databases are multidisciplinary and some are subject specific.
• Some databases only have bibliographic information, whilst others have a summary of the article.
• Full text databases provide access to the article in HTML or PDF format.
• Select the PDF format because it is easier to quote, as it has the page numbers for the articles.

Access Engineering                 

African Mines Online               

CRCnetBASE                         

Knovel                               

Academic Search Complete

Nature

ScienceDirect

Springerlink                         

 Taylor & Francis