MES Thesis Project Research Page
Winter 2001
Librarian: Sarah Pedersen
x6647 pedersen@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen Library Home Page: www.evergreen.edu/library
Finding the existing research/understanding the structure of information
I. Published monographs (books
& government documents) & unpublished monographs (theses)
*TESC's collection: The Library Catalog
To find a list of MES theses: do an author search--Evergreen State College.
Graduate Program in Environmental Studies
*The State Library
*CASCADE (direct borrowing from all the Washington State universities)
*World Cat
*Dissertation Abstracts
*Government
Documents Page
Federal Documents
*Environmental Impact Statements: search
specific locations and projects in the Evergreen and Washington State Library
catalogs
II. Gray literature (unpublished
government reports, technical reports)
Access Washington
(Research reports by agencies such as DNR
are now put on-line)
Municipal Research & Services Center
III. Scholary and other periodical
literature (journals, magazines, newspapers)
*Interdisciplinary
Journal Databases
Proquest, Ebscohost,
JSTOR--the broadcast approach
*Environmental Abstracts (THE index
to environmental publications. NOT on the Web! ONLY at the computers
located behind the reference desk)
*Scientific
Indexes and Abstracts
*Social
Science Indexes and Abstracts
*Librarian-mediated searches of BIOSIS
and other Dialog databases--when you need to dig deeper
IV. Web Guides
*Evergreen Web Guides
General
Science Web Pages: Envirolink, etc.
TESC Program Web
Pages:
Earth
Science Web Pages: Scorecard, etc.
EIS: Land
Olympic Peninsula
Community Food
Security
Reinhabitation
Northwest Indian
Applied Research Institute
*Other Web Guides
Envirolink
Infomine
V. General Searching in the Web
*TESC Search Engine
Page
Search Tips
Searches, metasearches
and webcrawlers--some definitions
Reviews
VI. Evaluating Information and
Publications
*Identify the author
or parent organization
--use of suffixes in the web
--publishers
*Look for citations and
references identifying sources
*Seek alternative sources
with varying perspectives
Genderwatch
EthnicNewswatch
VII. Organizing your research
process
Refer
to the Reference Resources page for style manuals and footnote formats
Print
all potentially relevant citations
E-mail or download
(digitize) all citations for future use in your bibliography
Record the source
of your citations (which database they came from)