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ProQuest Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
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Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
ProQuest Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and trade & consumer magazines for interdisciplinary, contemporary study of applied arts and cultural studies. From ProQuest.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
A diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the most common subject areas.
ProQuest Business Databases This link opens in a new window
Search ABI/INFORM, Barrons and the Proquest Research Library for Business
ProQuest Central Essentials This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Central Essentials provides comprehensive, full-text, periodical coverage from 12 complete ProQuest databases, including Research Library and US Newsstream.
These curated databases are focused on science, technology, business, health, religion, arts, literature, humanities, social sciences, and education. The top national and regional US newspapers and newswires are available alongside academic and professional journals, consumer magazines, blogs, and reports. Each of the 12 databases may be searched together or separately.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text digital archive of scholarly journals. Current issues are not provided for most journals.

Food Studies

Food History - A Bibliography
On-line resource providing a growing data base of bibliographic materials for researchers in the field of food history and, more generally, food studies.from the European Institute for Food Culture and History, citations only

Culinary Arts Collection (NOVELNY) This link opens in a new window
Academic journals and professional & popular magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition. The database includes searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Food Science Source This link opens in a new window
This database offers full-text coverage for more than 1,400 publications, including journals, magazines, and trade publications, dealing with food industry-related issues. More than 1,000 key food industry and market reports are available.

Environmental Studies

Agriculture Collection (NOVELNY) This link opens in a new window
Current, authoritative periodical content that spans the industry from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (NOVELNY) This link opens in a new window
The Environmental Studies & Policy Collection is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Offers researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
PubAg-USDA National Agricultural Library This link opens in a new window
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Library's (NAL) search system for agricultural information with full-text scholarly journal articles. PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics.

What is a Scholarly Journal? Peer Review?

A scholarly journal publishes authoritative research articles by academics or experts in a discipline.
The articles often undergo peer-review, that is they are evaluated by other experts before publication.

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Scholarly Journals v. Popular Magazines v. Trade Journals

Finding a Peer-Reviewed Research Article

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2. Confirm that it is a Research Article

Limiting your search results to articles published in peer reviewed scholarly journals is the first step.
Scholarly Journals include other types of documents, such as essays, literature reviews, book reviews, commentary, letters to the editor, announcements, etc. So...

How do I know if it is a research article?

A research article reports the original work of a scholar and will present evidence and conclusions.

Read the Abstract (summary of the article) or Introduction (first paragraph) to identify the type of article and the topics covered.

A research article must have:

a named Author
a Bibliography or References
PDF format available
more than a few pages

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Getting Articles from Other Libraries thru Interlibrary Loan

If the article you need is not available in full-text from the CIA Library, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL), a free service for CIA students, faculty and staff. Learn more about ILL.

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