Los Angeles Mission Library: Research Guide of the Month: Earth Day: Databases

Databases

Environment

Environmental Studies (Gale)
"Focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, state and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia."
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
"GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records."

Science & Health

Science (Gale)
"An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience." Features many articles on climate change and the environment.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
"This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines." Helpful for researching the health effects of environmental issues.

General Academic Databases

Not sure where to start? These academic databases cover a wide range of topics, making them a great place to begin your research.

EBSCOhost Databases
Articles from magazines and scholarly journals.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Magazine, newspaper, scholarly journal, and reference articles.

Topic Overviews & Background

Just getting started with an unfamiliar topic? These reference databases can help you find background information and give you a broad overview of your subject.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)
Contains encyclopedia entries on a wide variety of subjects. This is a good resource for getting a big-picture overview of a new topic.
Biography (Gale)
Biographies, reference material, and multimedia on people from around the world and throughout history. Helpful for finding biographical information on famous people.

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Current Issues

These databases will give you a variety of opinions and perspectives on current events and controversial issues.

CQ Researcher
"CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research."
Global Issues (Gale)
"Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal."
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
"Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues."

Newspapers

Looking for newspaper articles on your chosen topic? These databases can help you access many of the world's most well-known newspapers.

US Newsstream (Proquest)
"US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format."
Newspaper Source Plus (Ebsco)
"Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts."
News (Gale)
"Provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. News also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts, and transcripts."

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Boolean Operators Explained

AND

Diagram demonstrating boolean operator "AND"

Search results must include:

BOTH TERMS

"Cats AND Dogs"

Diagram demonstrating boolean operator "OR"

Search results must include:

EITHER TERM

"Cats OR Dogs"

NOT

Diagram demonstrating boolean operator "NOT"

Search results must include:

JUST ONE TERM

"Cats NOT Dogs"

Research Guide of the Month

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April:

Earth Day & Sustainability

Databases

Environment

Science & Health

General Academic Databases

Topic Overviews & Background

Current Issues

Newspapers

Boolean Operators Explained

Research Guide of the Month

April: Earth Day & Sustainability

Databases

Environment

Science & Health

General Academic Databases

Topic Overviews & Background

Current Issues

Newspapers

Boolean Operators Explained

April:

Earth Day & Sustainability