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Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database provides access to over 5,600 active full-text journals and over 6,500 open access journals. Covers topics that range from business, education, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and science. Coverage varies, updates also vary.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use Google Scholar to discover scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Some content will be freely available on the web; most will only be accessible by subscription. This restricted link allows current University students, faculty, and staff to access the full text of licensed resources to which the University subscribes. Click on the "Find it @ SCU" links to see if the University has the article through its institutional database and e-journal subscriptions.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to images and the full text of articles in back issues of selected scholarly journals related to the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences.
Consult the online tables of contents for the years available, as coverage varies for each title.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES & STUDIES DATABASES

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides articles, books, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications related to agriculture and environmental science from 1960 to the present.
This database covers areas such as agricultural engineering, biodiversity, botany, environmental law, forestry, sustainability, waste management, and water resources.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
This database provides research on all aspects of human influence on the natural environment and how individuals, corporations, and local/national governments can minimize negative impact. The subject areas include abstracts and full-text articles on global warming, green building, alternate fuel sources, recycling, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, among many others.
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
This database abstracts and provides the full-text of articles, newspapers, and multimedia resources related to environmental topics in science, international studies, business, law, and politics.

Typing a full question or sentence into Google is probably what you're used to doing--and it works okay in Google. Databases work better when you use single words or short phrases, then narrow by the database functions.
Combining two different words/phrases with AND narrows your search to items that contain both words. e.g.: pollution AND politics
Combining two different words/phrases with OR expands your search to items that contain either word--good for synonyms or different forms of the same word. e.g.: pollution AND (politics OR political)
- Are you wondering "what are the parentheses for?" Well, I'll tell you! Remember learning about the distributive property in your basic algebra class years ago? The parentheses tell the database to distribute the word(s) on the outside of the parentheses through what's on the inside. So you're telling the database: "I'd like you to search for anything with both the word "pollution" AND politics, as well as anything with the word "pollution" AND political. Thanks, database!"