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ENGL 1012: Climate Change: Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases for Literature and Film Research

8. The Brooklyn College Library subscribes to over 400 different article databases and although oneSEARCH searches a lot of them at the same time, it doesn’t search all of them.


From the Library’s website, click on the Databases link.

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One of the options ("Browse Databases by Title") will present you with an A-Z list of all the databases the Library subscribes to.

 

Try searching several (or all) of the databases below to look for articles in scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

Multi-disciplinary databases (cover a lot of different subjects, climate change and the environmnent):

  • Academic Search Complete
  • JSTOR
  • Proquest
  • Project Muse
  • SAGE Journals Online
  • ScienceDirect
  • Scopus
  • SpringerLink
  • Wiley Online

Subject-specific databases:

  • Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
  • GeoScienceWorld
  • GreenFILE
  • GREENR
  • Literature Resource Center (Literature)
  • Political Science
  • PsycINFO (Psychology)
  • SocINDEX with Full Text (Sociology)

In choosing one of the subject-specific databases, think about the focus of your topic. If you're studying the emotional and psychological effects of climate change, PsycINFO would be a good database to try. If you're writing about climate fiction, then try Literature Resource Center.