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A bibliographic database is built up of records forming citations or references that refer to journal articles, reports, books, book chapters, and other documents.
Many bibliographic databases have records with abstracts or brief summaries of the articles. Some records have links to the full text or entire content of whole articles as they appeared in the journal.
Bibliographic databases
- always select for quality resources
- can be multidisciplinary or very subject specific
- may include both scientific and applied literature
- may include other document types than journal articles
- may be freely available on the Internet but often ask very high licence fees
Examples of Bibliographic databases
- Web of Science (a multidisciplinary bibliographic database of scientific journal articles only)
- PubMed (a medical bibliographic database, freely available on the Internet)
- Agris (an agricultural bibliographic database of scientific and applied literature, freely available on the Internet)
- SciFinder (a chemical bibliographic database)
- Google Scholar (a multidisciplinary bibliographic database, freely available on the Internet)
You may use online bibliographic databases subscribed to by the library from any
Internet-connected computer. For access from outside the Wageningen campus you need to have a WUR account and login on the library website.