Books
Ignacio & Link +
Search the USF library catalog, Ignacio, for
books and titles of journals USF owns. It also lets you access LINK+, which has
the holdings of over 45 libraries that you can borrow books from. When
searching, use both Keywords and Subjects for best results.
For Keywords, think about
the terms you are using:
Environment, Ecology,
Nature, Ecofeminist
Religion, Spiritual, Ethics
You can truncate these terms
(for example: environment* will retrieve environment, environmental,
environmentalists, environmentalism, etc)
For Subjects, some possible
subject headings are:
Ecology—Moral and Ethical
Aspects
Human Ecology—Religious
Aspects
Religion and Science
Nature—Religious Aspects
Environmental Ethics
Journal Articles
Databases
Because many of the topics
about religion and the environment transcend traditional academic subjects, try
different databases and see how the results compare. Here are a few suggestions
for getting started:
Database with a
theology/religion focus:
Ebsco Religion
Databases with an
environmental focus:
Environment Complete
Green File
Multisubject databases:
Fusion
Academic Search Premier
JSTOR
ProQuest
Three search tips:
1) For finding scholarly
articles: look for “peer reviewed” or “refereed” journals.
2) For getting full text: some
databases do not have full text articles, only abstracts, or you may be looking
at a bibliography in an article. If you have a citation, check either USF Find
Full Text or Journal Finder to see if we subscribe to the journal either in
paper or in one of our databases.
3) Searching the web: try
using Google Scholar for scholarly sources in books and journal articles. Once
you find the citation, use Ignacio or Journal Finder to see if we have it.
