Databases For Environmental and Economic Research
- Environmental Studies and Policy Collection This link opens in a new windowEnvironmental Studies and Policy Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies. The database includes diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and more.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
- Repec.orgUse this database to find articles from the perspective of economics. They will likely touch on environmental topics through the lens of regulations and costs for compliance to businesses.
Links for the library session
- OWL Purdue: CitationThis is a link to Purdue's Online Writing Lab and provides information on how to cite in all available styles.
What is a keyword?
Keyword is a library term for any word that represents a concept that you are searching for. When you type a word into any database, you want to use keywords.
Keywords tend to be:
- Nouns or verbs
- Single words or short phrases
- Vitally important to the concept you are looking for.
- In other words, if you took them out you would have a different topic.
Keywords are almost never:
- Connecting words like "the" "it" "then
- Special search terms like "and" "or" or "not" (More on this later)
How to use keywords
When you are searching in a database, remember that these resources think differently from you. You need to use special terms to get the database to give you good information.
If you want to connect two concepts, use the word AND. That will give you a list of articles that contain both the concepts you connect.
If you want to look for multiple independent concepts, use the word OR. That will take each word you connect and give you a list of articles that contains either or both concepts.
Some databases also use NOT to exclude information. If you use NOT, the list of articles should remove all articles with the word after NOT.
