Research Guides: Environmental Science &amp; Management Research Guide: FindingArticles

Recommended Databases

Popular, Scholarly, and Trade Professional Sources in the Natural Resources & Sciences

How to Pre-Read Scholarly Articles

Looking For A Specific Journal?

Use the Journal Finder to search for journal titles by name.

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Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes journals, magazines and bulletins covering all fields of art, including graphic design.
ERIC
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) is the primary database for education literature. It includes both journal articles and other documents from 1966 to the present. The database is available from different vendors with article linking as well as from the freely available website.

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TRID
Indexes over 1 million records of published transportation research from books, technical reports, conferences and journals. Covers the planning, finance, design, construction, environmental issues, safety and operation of all modes of transportation--aviation, highway, marine, motor carriers, pedestrians, bicycles, pipelines, railroads and public transportation. The index is a combination of records from the former TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) and ITRD (International Transport Research Documentation) databases. Many government documents link to fulltext.

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ABI/INFORM Complete
[ProQuest] Business and management database featuring thousands of full-text journals, key newspapers (e.g. The Wall Street Journal), and country-and industry-focused reports and data.
ERIC
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) is the primary database for education literature. It includes both journal articles and other documents from 1966 to the present. The database is available from different vendors with article linking as well as from the freely available website.
SPORTDiscus
[Ebsco] Offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. With full bibliographic coverage, monographs dating back to 1949, and journal coverage to 1975, this database contains over 565,000 records and over 200,000 dissertations and theses.

Google Scholar

Link your Google Scholar results to HSU and see which articles you have access to as an HSU student. Under Google Scholar settings, set "Library Links" to include Humboldt State University! View this short video for demonstration on how to do this.

Google Scholar

How do I find journal articles on my topic?

There are search strategy guides tailored to science: Identifying Concepts and Generating Search Terms and AND, OR, NOT (Boolean Operators).

Citation Searching

If you know of an article on your topic, you may use Citation Linker to locate the article.

Always look at the References list at the end of each relevant article you find, to see if any of the listed sources might be useful!

Google Scholar is useful when searching citations. The Advanced Scholar Search option is the best way to search for articles which cite a known article. Check the "Cited by #" link below a search result to find additional useful sources - more recent articles which cite that relevant or classic article.

More ways to search citations may also be found in the Citation Searching section of Searching the Scientific Literature.

Peer-Reviewed Article?

Peer-reviewed articles have been read and evaluated by experts in the field to determine their quality and relevance to the subject they address before being published.

The links below explain more about peer-reviewed articles and the peer-review process.

Peer Review in 3 Minutes is a brief tutorial, from North Carolina State University that explains the peer review process in detail.

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Searching the Scientific Literature