The following journal indexes will help you find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles for your assignment.
General
- GEOBASE
- Strong for finding articles in the field of geography.
- Note the Turn Off AutoSuggest / Turn On AutoSuggest toggle in Quick Search - How you want to set this will depend upon how many results you are getting and how relevant your search results are.
- You may limit the language of your search results to English.
- GREENR
- GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) offers content on the development of emerging reen technologies, and focuses on the academic study of sustainability, the environment, and more.
- Portal combines academic journals, videos, news articles, videos, case studies, and topic overviews in a single interface
- Academic Search Complete
- Complete list of journal indexes.
Special tips:
If you are finding one or two excellent articles and you want to find more similar articles, the following tools will help:
- Web of Science: Search for the title of a relevant article within quotation marks, click on the title of the article in the result list, and click on View Related Records. The articles with the most shared references (and thus most likely to be similar to the original article) will appear first.
- Google Scholar: Search for the title of a relevant article within quotation marks, find the article in the result list, and click on Related articles. Again, the most relevant articles should appear first.
