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Human Geography: Environmental Policy Debate: DATABASES

Use this guide to find sources that agree or disagree with the following statement: President Trump's position on environmental issues will be beneficial to the United States.

Using Databases for Research

Databases are research tools that contain digitized information from encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, journals and other credible sources. Bullis School Library subscribes to many databases to give students access to reliable information. With databases, you can:

  • Search by keywords
  • Improve searches with built in tools
  • Get citations
  • Save time by accessing reliable sources

**To access databases off-campus, use the login and password provided to you in class, or email the librarian.

Keyword Searching

As you brainstorm about your topic, make a short list of nouns that relate to your subject. These are the keywords you will use to search for information from the databases. Use the following terms in combination with your keywords to improve your research results:

  • Use quotation marks around keywords that are phrases
    • "water pollution"
  • Use truncation (*) to expand a keyword search to anything with the word stem
    • scien* --> science, scientific, scientists
  • AND combines two keywords to narrow search results
    • deforestation AND madagascar​

All Databases at Bullis Library

Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Global Issues in Context

TOPICsearch

Newspaper Source

Gale Science in Context