LibGuides: Sustainable Food Systems (BPSE-351): Finding Articles

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Interlibrary Loan for Articles

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a free service for all currently enrolled CIA students, faculty and staff.

We will email the digital copy (pdf) of the article to you. It may take around 1 week to receive an article.

How to Request an Item thru ILL in Omnivore:

Search in Omnivore for a title, author, or topic
Click on Title of item
Click button Request Item through Interlibrary Loan
Enter your name, CIA email and date needed

If you do not find the item in Omnivore, you can use the Online ILL Request forms

Learn more about our Interlibrary Loan services.

EBSCO Databases ~ Food & Environment Studies

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More Databases

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. From NOVELNY.
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.

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 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.

Tips for Database Searching

Searching is a process, you will try one search, evaluate your results, modify your strategy and try again.

Start with simple keyword searching
Use the Database Options to Refine or Limit and narrow your search
LIMITS include;
- Scholarly & Peer Review
- Full-Text
- Date of Publication
- Format or Document Type e.g. article, book review, letter to editor
Evaluate an article by reading the Abstract or summary.
Review your results to identify concepts & terminology that can help improve your search results.
Look at Subject Headings & Descriptors, standard vocabulary terms that describe the contents of articles
Use the Advanced Search screen to mix and match keywords and subjects and more.

Advanced Search Tips

Phrase Searches
Search for complete phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks. Words enclosed in double quotes will appear together in all results exactly as typed, e.g. "culinary science", "fast casual"

Truncation & Wildcards *
The asterisk ('*') matches non-space characters, starting at the specified position in the word. For example, "farm*" will match "farm", "farmer", "farmed", "farming", "farmworker", "farmhouse", etc.

Boolean Operators
Use AND or OR to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use AND NOT to exclude words.

stocks AND sauces {search results must have both terms}
stocks OR sauces {must have at least one of the terms}
stocks NOT sauces {must have first term and must not include second term}
Use the Database Tools to Email, Save & Cite articles.