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News

LexisNexis Academic

  • Go to the library home page [1]
  • Click on "Databases A-Z"
  • Scroll down to "LexisNexis Academic"
  • IMPORTANT!!!   When you've arrived at LexisNexis Academic - choose the blue "News" button on the left ... then choose "All News"

 

Special LexisNexis Tricks

  • atmospher!  ...  finds atmosphere,  atmospheres, and atmospheric
  • atleast4(monsoon!) ...  finds articles that contain either monsoon or monsoons at least four times in the article
  • hlead(hurricane!) ...  finds articles with either hurricane or hurricanes in either the title or the lead parragraph.
  • length>1000 finds articles with more than 1000 words


General OneFile

  • Go to the library home page [1]
  • Click on "Databases A-Z"
  • Scroll down to "General OneFile"
  • IMPORTANT!!! Click on Advanced Search and set "Publication Date" so that you are search the past two years.
  • Once you get your results ... you can find news under the category "Magazines" or the category "News"

Scientific American (EBSCOhost) [2]

  • Click on “EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite”
  • Then click on “Search within this publication”
    (upper right-hand corner of the page)
  • Then type in ther topic(s) of your search in the second blank below  the one containing  “JN "Scientific American""

    e.g. JN "Scientific American" and hurricane

    e.g. JN "Scientific American" and hurricane and flood*

    e.g. JN "Scientific American" and ("climate change" or "global warming")

 

Research Articles

Panther Prowler [3]

To locate research articles click on
"Subjects A-Z (Panther Prowler)".

Then click on a logical subject area:

  • Earth Science [3]
  • Environmental Science [3]
  • Geography [3]
  • Sciences [3]
    [4]

ScienceDirect

  • Go to the library home page [1]
  • Click on "Databases A-Z"
  • Scroll down to "ScienceDirect (Elsevier)"
  • IMPORTANT!!!  Click on "Advanced Search" found on the right-hand side of the gray tool bar.
  • Limit search to "in: Abstract, Title, Keywords"
  • Set "Dates" to the past two years.

Wiley Online Library

  • Go to the library home page [1]
  • Click on "Databases A-Z"
  • Scroll down to "Wiley Online Library"
  • IMPORTANT!!!  Click on "Advanced Search" found at the bottom of the "SEARCH" box on the left-hand side of the page
  • If you get too many results ... limit your search to either "Article Titles" or "Abstract"
  • Set "Dates" to "Between" for the past two years.

Google Scholar

  • Go to the library home page [1]
  • Click on "Databases A-Z"
  • Scroll down to "Google Scholar"
  • If you get too many results ... limit your search by using the "intitle:"  command ... e.g.  intitle:monsoon
  • After you get results ... change "anytime" (found in the green tool bar at the top) ... to the past two years.

Save Time, Reduce Stress, and ...

  • Academic Learning Center [5]
  • Advice from Your Library [6]
  • Ask a Librarian [7]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

image of clouds from a plane by Kevin Dooley - courtesy of the Creative Commons and flickr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated 8/28/2011 CN
Angela Cox
  • Climate Change [8]
  • Global Warming [9]
  • May [10]

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[1] http://www.library.uni.edu/
[2] http://researchtools.uni.edu:3210/uni?sid=III:innopac&pid=id=0036-8733
[3] http://www.library.uni.edu/../../../../../gateway
[4] https://login.proxy.lib.uni.edu/login?url=http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
[5] http://www.uni.edu/unialc/
[6] http://www.library.uni.edu/sites/default/files/instruction/advicefromyourlibrary2010.pdf
[7] http://www.library.uni.edu/../../../../../ask-us-research-help
[8] http://www.library.uni.edu/category/tags/climate-change
[9] http://www.library.uni.edu/category/tags/global-warming
[10] http://www.library.uni.edu/category/tags/may