A comprehensive index of over 2.8 million citations to international geoscience literature. Produced by the American Geological Institute.
Tip: When full text is not available, use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).
A multi-database search tool combining all three Web of Science indexes (the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index).
Tip: You can use this index to find works that have cited a specific author or article.
If you connect Google Scholar to Western Washington University, free versions of articles that Western Libraries holds will be linked on the right side with FindIt@WWU.
If you connect Google to Western Libraries or search in our databases, you'll find some articles or books that aren't in our collection at WWU. We can still get them for you. Use Interlibrary Loan -- our FindIt@WWU service -- to ask for them. Watch the 2-minute video below for the basics.
If you're not finding much, use tools like Google and Wikipedia to identify variations of their name, for example middle names/initials, birth names, or married names.
Examples:
"Marine science" AND "BIPOC"
"Marine science" AND "environmental justice"
Think of how your group or topic is described in different contexts (the past, a different culture, another discipline). How is it described by people with institutional power? By people most affected by it? Search these variations to get the broadest set of resources.
Examples:
"Marine science" AND "BIPOC" OR "people of color" OR "minorities"
"Marine science" AND "environmental justice" OR "social justice" OR "climate justice"
Once you have found a promising source in OneSearch or a database, you can use the subject headings in the item record to find related material.
Look at the item record for subject headings or subject descriptors; these will give you insight into how the database defines a topic.
Sample subject headings
Women marine biologists
African American scientists
Marine scientists
