Green FILE

摘要

GreenFILE is a freely available research database offered by EBSCO and follows the same basicrnformat and style of EBSCO's other databases. According to the description on the EBSCO website, GreenFILE draws from over 600 titles and covers "all aspects of human impact to the environment... [including] global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling". The total number of records is 384,000 with 4,700 of those from open access journals. The list of titles covered by GreenFILE can be found by clicking on Choose Databases from the GreenFILE homepage, selecting GreenFILE from the list and clicking Detailed View. It is not immediately evident from the list how many of the titles are peer-reviewed. I randomly selected ten and only found one peer-reviewed journal. However, elsewhere the search options do allow results to be limited to peer-reviewed material thus providing users a way to evaluate the quality of records returned.