Specialized books such as the following titles can provide background information on your topic or help you with definitions of words you hear in class but do not understand.
ref QE 5 .K85
Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Timothy Kusky,, 2005
ref QE 5 .E5137
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences. E. Julius Dasch, ed.,
1996
Oxford Companion to the Earth. Paul L. Hancock and Brian J. Skinner, eds., 2003
2000 volume in ref QE 5 .O94
Encyclopedia
of Global Warming and Climate Change. S. George Philander, ed.
2008
ref QC 983 .R83
The Weather Almanac. 2001
QE522 .E530
Encyclopedia of volcanoes. Haraldur Sigurdsson, editor-in-chief, 2000
QE521 .R58
The Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Alexander E. Gates
and David Ritchie, 2007.
The databases listed below are subject and author indexes to journals, magazines and newspapers. For more choices than those listed below, go to The University Libraries home page, click on Databases then click on the starting letter of the database or click on a department name.
To help you decide on the correct databases, think about what departments on campus might cover material in your subject area, then click on that department name to see which databases we recommend. For example, industrial development may be covered in both the geography and business/economic databases so try several different possibilities..
Tips:
-When researching your topic, try a variety of subject headings for the same
concept. For example, to find information on salaries you may have to use
the term wages or earnings. Unemployment might appear as a subdivision of
employment or labor.
-Click here for tips on using the search
connectors AND, OR, and NOT in your search strategy.
-If AND and OR are used in the same search, the terms connected by OR must
be in parentheses ( )
-How to Find Articles in Scholarly Journals
REMEMBER: To get to the
full text of the journal article you must go through the Library's web pages.
We have paid for access to the journals. You cannot go to the publisher's
page to get an article. Use Journal
Finder if you have the name of the journal.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
This is a general database of over 8000 popular and scholarly English-language
journals in many different disciplines dating from 1980. About half of
this database is full text. Considerable overlap with Academic
Search Premier but each database indexes titles the other does not.
ProQuest Research Library
Includes some full text articles from 2600 periodicals from a variety
of subject areas. Dates of abstracts and full text coverage vary by title.
Greensboro
News & Record, New
York Times, and Wall
Street Journal
These newspaper databases would be particularly useful for local, state
or national coverage of hurricanes and floods.
Looking for the full text of the article? Go to Journal Finder and enter the name of the journal.
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