LibGuides: Decolonising your reading list: Geography and your reading list

Searching for authors from specific regions

Widen the scope of authors included in your reading list by focusing on geographical regions

A number of research databases allow you to carry out searches on specific topics and then explore the results by geographical region.

Once you have identified some key authors in your field of practice to explore, you can carry out additional searches using their names or institutions to identify any books, papers or conference proceedings that may be relevant to share with your students. Click through the tabs to view more information and demonstrations.

Video (4 minutes) detailing how to refine your search results on Web of Science to specific regions and institutions.

Web of Science A bibliographic index to the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, supporting comprehensive literature searching. NOTE: not all results will provide the full-text content. Use the "check for this at Exeter" option to find out if the Library provides access to the full text.

Use the 'analyse search' option and filters in SCOPUS to explore published work on specific topics by region. This will help you identify prominent authors publishing in your discipline area.

This video (2 minutes) demonstrates how to do this using SCOPUS.

SCOPUS An Index to scholarly literature across the life sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities, supporting comprehensive literature searching.