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Sustainability: Finding Articles & More

Off-Campus Access to Databases

To access any database in this Research Guide from off campus, you will need your myMCC login.

Article Databases

Try these databases to start your research on sustainability or environmental issues.

Keywords to Start Your Research

Forestry AND climate

Global temperature changes

Geology AND climate

Global warming

Ecology

Environmental sciences

Bioclimatology

Conservation biology

Ecological impact

Habitats

Resource availability

Extreme weather

Plastic scrap (use instead of plastic waste)

Climate change:

and health

and politics

research

social aspects

skepticism (use instead of climate change denial)

detection

education

forecasts

laws

mitigation

models

prevention

risk management

extremes

Effect of climate on:

animal behavior

aquaculture

forest resilience

wildlife resources

Sustainability

agriculture

architecture

biodiversity

buildings

fashion

communities

consumption

horticulture

food movement

living

tourism

transportation

Search Strategies

Try these database search strategies to find relevant information efficiently.

Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT

  • AND: for combining unrelated search terms (standardized tests AND anxiety)
  • OR: for searching similar words (standardized tests OR SAT)
  • NOT: for eliminating results (standardized tests NOT college students)

Phrase Searching

  • Use quotation marks to search words as a complete phrase, like “standardized tests”

Keywords

  • Don't search with a question like you might when you use Google. Remember to use specific keywords in the databases. Use the Subject Terms tool in a database like Academic Search Complete to help you identify those specific keywords.
  • Use 2-3 keywords at a time

Limiters

  • Full Text
  • Peer reviewed
  • Date Range
  • Format types (academic journal, newspaper, magazine, opinion, etc.)

Search Multiple Databases at Once

  • Search all EBSCO databases at once: go to EBSCO Databases and click the Select All checkbox.
  • Search all Gale databases at once: go to Gale Power Search.