Using Library Resources & How to Log In
Use the library Advanced Search, and try using these keywords to get started:
Environment AND Sustainability
- Here's a video (23 min.) to learn how to use the library search engine to do your research, refine results, and instructs how to evaluate and access the resources in the results. You'll also learn how to save, print, and email citations, and access your account information. Viewing this video is a good idea!
Intro to Primo - Library Search Engine
Listed below are other resources to explore, based on your specific topics, such as suggested databases, links to library ebooks, streaming media, and more!
Remember to be a critical thinker, be aware of personal biases, and explore and discover as you search!
Databases
Use library databases to locate credible authoritative sources- including newspapers, magazines, academic journals and peer-reviewed academic journals. You'll find articles, statistics, images, media - all at your fingertips in the library!
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Environmental Studies (Gale In Context) Find credible information addressing environmental topics such as pollution, carbon markets, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
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GreenFILE (EBSCO) Access scholarly journal and magazine content on environmental topics such as climate change, green building, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
- Issues and Controversies Easy to read background information, pro/con articles, primary sources, visual aids, and statistics on controversial topics.
- Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) Find pro/con issues on a variety of and current topics- including health-related issues.
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Global Issues (Gale In Context) Includes credible sources on controversial global issues. Good content to support arguments or informative essays or speeches. Includes: pro/con articles, magazines, scholarly journals, and statistics.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) A general broad-based academic database where you can explore and discover scholarly journals, news, and magazines.
- Academic OneFile Select (Gale) (formerly Expanded Academic ASAP) Find scholarly journals, news, magazines, and videos on current issues topics.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Short, easy to read reference entries and related images to get background information on health topics.
- JSTOR Subject(s): A database with social science content that Includes scholarly journals, book chapters, and primary sources.
eBooks
Use eBooks to find content online from credible sources to support your thesis or provide an opposing viewpoint and easily email a page or chapter from the eBook along with the citation to organize your sources. eBooks are great sources for assignments that may require an ebook as a source and you can use a section, a few pages, or a chapter that may be useful to support your writing.
- eBook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Assignments that require ebooks or book chapters. Includes: All ebooks from the publisher ProQuest.
- eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Assignments that require ebooks or book chapters. Includes: All ebooks from the publisher EBSCO.
- eBooks (Gale) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Literature, humanities, medicine, and history. Best for: In-depth overviews of a topic and starting your research. Includes: Book chapters, reference essays, and literary criticisms on short stories, poems, plays, and novels.
- Infobase eBooks This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research, Dual Enrollment students. Includes: Acclaimed eBook titles on core subjects.
Audio Books
- OverdriveAccess exclusive Recorded Books audiobook titles, as well as other popular eBooks and audiobook titles that your library offers - brings exclusive Recorded Books eAudioin one collection that features the best literature in a wide variety of genres along with an outstanding collection of award-winning Childrens and Young Adult titles.
Suggested Search Terms and Keywords
Be a critical thinker as you begin to consider topics and how these may be related to additional topics.
Here are some suggestions to get started:
- environment
- sustainability
- environmental policy
- ecology
- environmental economics
- climate
- environmental ethics
- humans and the environment
Consider combining terms like these with the word AND and see what you find! Be sure to use the short keyword or search terms rather than pose a question or statement like we typically do while searching in Google.
TEDxTalks-Environment
- How to Make Radical Climate Action the New NormalA net-zero future is possible, but first we need to flip a mental switch to truly understand that we can stop the climate crisis if we try, says Nobel laureate Al Gore. In this inspiring and essential talk, Gore shares examples of extreme climate events (think: fires, floods and atmospheric tsunamis), identifies the man-made systems holding us back from progress and invites us all to join the movement for climate justice: "the biggest emergent social movement in all of history," as he puts it. An unmissable tour de force on the current state of the crisis -- and the transformations that will make it possible to find a way out of it. (15:42)
Streamed Media
- Alexander Street Press Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Includes: Documentaries, films, and musicals. Faculty How To
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowA curated selection of primary sources for teaching and learning about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans. Developed with input from Black history scholars and advisors, this resource is freely available on the web and to libraries for anyone studying U.S. Black history.
- Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowSelect film titles for streaming, including feature films and documentaries. Faculty How To
- Films on Demand (Films Media Group) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Presentations needing visual aids or assignments that allow films as sources (create an optional personal account to save videos and create custom clips). Includes: Streaming educational videos.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - AVON This link opens in a new windowOver 70,000 videos and films covering topics in anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Faculty How To
- Swank Digital Campus (Motion Pictures) This link opens in a new windowIncludes: Some feature length films and documentaries, such as the Matrix and Food, Inc. Faculty How To
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