EDS 5430 - Methods for Environmental Problems and Issue Investigation

EDS 5430Methods for

Environmental Problems and Issue Investigation

Kathy Turner, MLISAssociate Dean of Libraries

Director, Research Instruction321-674-8839, [email protected]

Research Guide – EDS 5430

Research Guide – EDS 5430

• finding journals: A – Z Journals • finding books, government information,

and other materials: Library Catalog• finding articles: Databases• Using government information • organizing and managing research results:

RefWorks• obtaining resources unavailable at the

Evans Library: interlibrary loan/ILLiad

Finding journals

Choose A to Z Journals.

Input journal name.

Review the multiple ways this journal is available.

Finding books, government information, and other materials; choose Books & e-Books.

Select Library Catalog.

Input keywords or subject headings.

Review books, e-books, and other materials.

sorted by date

Finding articles; choose Articles & Databases.

Select a topic-related database.

For example, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management…

… for Indian River Lagoon research

232 articles in all

163 are from scholarly journals

Sort by date, if most current are desired.

Narrow by date; manage results.

Select those of interest; export to RefWorks.

One can “create bibliography” from last imported file.

Choose appropriate style.

Ta-da!

Authentic with TRACKS to set up a RefWorks account.

Back to the results…

Many articles will be available full-text.

Full text

To get the full text of some articles, searchers will need to click on the 360 LINK .

Then one can click directly to the article

The database ProQuest provided this article.

On those rare occasions when the Library does not provide the article, interlibrary loan service can be used to obtain it.

Authenticate with TRACKS to set up an ILLiad (interlibrary loan) account.

Research Guide – EDS 5430