Unit 4 Part 2- Subject or Discipline-Based Databases

1. What is the main subject of your question?
Hurricane Katrina
2. What subject guide or guides did you use to identify the relevant databases for your question?
Geology and Environmental Studies

Research Entry #1

1. Which database did you choose for your search?
JSTOR
2. What terms did you enter to conduct your search?
Hurricane Katrina economic impact
3. How many results did you retrieve?
109 results
4. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results?
I had roughly 100 results so I did not need to refine my search.
5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful?
The articles for the most part were all relevant to my topic, and, as you said in the module, the JSTOR database has only scholarly journals.
6. Which article did you choose? Give the bibliographic information for that article (I must be able to access this article).
Title: A Preliminary Assessment of Social and Economic Impacts Associated with Hurricane Katrina
Authors: John S. Petterson, Laura D. Stanley, Edward Glazier and James Philipp
Publisher: American Anthropologist
Publish Date: Dec 2006
Edition: Vol. 108, No. 4
7. How did you determine these articles were meaningful?
The artical touched upon the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina, and came from a reliable source.

Research Entry #2

1. Which database did you choose for your search?
Science Citation Index
2. What terms did you enter to conduct your search?
Hurricane Katrina economic impact
3. How many results did you retrieve?
16
4. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results?
N/A, only had 16 results
5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful?
The articles for the most part were all relevant to my topic.
6. Which article did you choose? Give the bibliographic information for that article (I must be able to access this article).
Title: Estimating the economic impact of natural and social disasters, with an application to Hurricane Katrina
Author:Baade RA, Baumann R, Matheson V
Publisher: URBAN STUDIES
Publish Date: 2007
Edition: Vol. 44, Iss. 11
7. How did you determine these articles were meaningful?
This article touched upon the economic impact of all natural disasters, mainly touching upon the impact of Katrina.