 This tutorial will briefly demonstrate how to find article citations using the database GeoRef. GeoRef is produced by the American Geological Institute and contains references to geoscience literature. The database indexes articles on North America from 1669 to the present, and world coverage dates back to 1933. To start your search, type your topic in the search box. For our example, we will use soil erosion. You can see that we have gotten over 27,000 results. There are a few things we can do to refine our results. We can add more search terms in the search boxes such as water or agriculture, or add a place like the Grand Canyon. You can also look under the heading Subject on the left side of the screen and use the subjects listed to narrow your results. This is a way to narrow your results by looking at the top most frequent subjects within your search results. I will select Hydrology. You can see that our list has dropped to 5900. If you click on a hyperlinked title, you can see citation information such as article title, author, source title, year, etc. An abstract may be available. And subject terms. Subject terms are useful if you would like to try searching for different words. You can use the hyperlinked subjects to expand your search if you did not get enough results. There are other useful features on this screen I would like to point out. The Site feature will create a citation for the article which you can copy and paste in your paper. A word of caution. Always remember to double check the citation style just in case the database made an error. Use the Export button to send this citation to a bibliographic management tool such as RefWorks. Last, let's say you found this wonderful article and would like more similar articles. You can click on the Find Similar Results link. After I read the abstract, I decide that I would like to read the whole article for my research. Click on the Get It at BU button to see if we have electronic or print access to the journal article through any of our hundreds of other databases. Please see the Get It at BU tutorial if you have any questions about that. Last, you can search multiple databases simultaneously if the library subscribed to them on the same vendor platform. For example, by selecting Choose Database, I am able to search GeoRef, Agrocola, and Sustainability Reference Center at the same time. If you need further assistance, please contact a librarian using the Ask a Librarian link. Thank you.