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Citation Guides

• Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010.
  Information Desk Z253 .U69 2010
  See also the Chicago Citation Quick Guide.
• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Kate Turabian; rev. Wayne C. Booth et al. 7th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007.
  Information Desk LB2369 .T8 2007
  See also the Turabian Quick Guide.
• RefWorks
  Capture, retain, and organize citations, generate bibliographies in Chicago or MLA format, share references, and more. See also the library's guide to using RefWorks.

Background Information

• AccessScience
  Contains the full text of the most recent edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms as well as biographies of scientists and science and technology news.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  A collection of over 275 full-text reference works.
• Oxford Reference Online
  Contains the full text of over 250 dictionaries, encyclopedias, and subject-specific reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Books, Published Reports, & Videos

General search tips:

• Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
• In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
• Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "

• Davidson Library WorldCat
  Lists the books, journals, magazines, newspapers, government documents, and videos in our library and in libraries worldwide; also includes some article citations.
  Tip: For the Boolean operator "Not" use -
• ebrary
  A collection of over 70,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
  Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
• WorldCat Classic
  Lists books, videos, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. You can submit an interlibrary loan request to borrow books that aren't available at Davidson.
  • Identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.

Articles, Essays, Working Papers, &c.

• Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
• In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
• Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "

• Access World News: Research Collection
  (c. 1985 to present) Over 600,000 full-text news sources, including local, regional, national, and international newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, journals, and more.
• GREENR: Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
  Includes a wide variety of materials on sustainability and environmental issues, including articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers; refereed case studies; videos; podcasts; and images. Also includes country, organization, and issue/topic portals.
• LexisNexis Academic
  (c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals.
  Tip: click on "all news" for more search options or click on "subject areas" to search for environmental studies.
• Westlaw Campus Research
  Includes the full text of news articles.

• Annual Reviews
  (1932 to present) Full text review articles on important topics in Environmental Studies and the Social, Biomedical, Life, and Physical.
• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
  (1991 to present) Includes citations to journal articles and books and the full text of over 400 working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, policy briefs, and economic indicators.
• Ebsco: Environmental Studies Databases
  Includes the following databases:
  • Academic Search Complete
    (1975 to present) Popular and scholarly articles; interdisciplinary.
  • America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
    (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Journal articles and book chapters.
  • Business Source Complete
    (c. 1965 to present) Articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, and business magazines; also includes industry reports, case studies, market research reports, and over 1,000 books.
  • Business Abstractst
    (1913 to present) Indexes over 2,000 business, industry, applied science, and technology periodicals, including scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines like Business Week, and selected newspapers.
  • EconLIT
    (1969 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and more on a broad array of economics topics.
  • Essay & General Literature Index
    (1900 to present) Essays published in books and edited collections.
  • Environment Complete
    (1884 to present) Covers agriculture, ecology, energy, natural resources, geography, pollution, environmental law, public policy, ubran planning, and related environmental topics.
  • General Science Full Text
    (1984 to present) Articles from a variety of science disciplines.
  • GreenFILE
    (c. 1970s to present) Articles on topics related to the human impact on the environment; includes citations to articles in scholarly, popular, and trade periodicals.
  • Humanities Full Text and Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
    (1907 to present) Journal articles; covers the humanities broadly.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega
    (1982 to present) Popular and scholarly articles; interdisciplinary.
  • Social Sciences Full Text & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
    (1907 to present) Journal articles; covers the social sciences broadly.
• Environment Abstracts
  (1975 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to environmental issues, impacts, laws, policies, and technologies, including biodiversity, energy, land use, pollution, population studies, resource management, sustainable development, and more. Covers over 950 journals.
• GREENR: Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
  Includes a wide variety of materials on sustainability and environmental issues, including articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers; refereed case studies; videos; podcasts; and images. Also includes country, organization, and issue/topic portals.
• JSTOR
  A collection of the back issues of over 1,200 electronic journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Note: JSTOR does not usually contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
  Tips: truncation symbol: +
• PAIS International
  (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in the fields of economics, political science, and public affairs.
• Project Muse
  A collection of over 400 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• Sociological Abstracts
  (1963 to present) Articles, conference reports, and reviews.
• Web of Knowledge
  (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  (1975 to present) Indexes articles on a broad array of political science and international relations topics; international in scope.
• See also:
  • Think Tanks Directory, from the Harvard Kennedy School Library
  • USAGov
    The U.S. Government's official Web portal to federal, state, and local government information.