Wikipedia:Meetup/World Soil Day 2017 Edit-a-thon/Research

All material in Wikipedia must be verifiable. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Academic libraries are a great source of resources: indeed academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are often considered the most reliable sources for Wikipedia. Additionally, resources do not have to be accessible online: Printed books and journals and materials from academic databases can be used a resources to ensure verifiability of a topic (and Wikipedia based projects can be great opportunities to leverage library resources).

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Soil Science Databases

 * Web of Science Core Collection is multidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research.
 * GeoRef is a comprehensive database of international research literature on geology and the geosciences.
 * CAB Direct (CAB Abstracts & Global Health) has international coverage of articles in agriculture, forestry, global health, human nutrition, animal health, natural resources management and conservation.
 * PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. It delivers over 40,000 full-text journal articles by USDA staff and citations to an additional 340,000 articles. Updated daily.

Open Access (OA) resources

 * OPANEN - Open monographs
 * Directory of Open Access books
 * JURN - OA search engine (journals primarily and some theses)

Other Resources

 * SoilWeb200 is a UBC resource that provides online, interactive, graphical, video and text-based information on fundamental soil science concepts. It also relates these concepts to various soil management issues.
 * UBC Library Soil Science Research Guide a list of databases, ebooks, UBC soil science theses and other resources