LibGuides: Social Issue: Climate Change Controversy: Scholarly Articles

Obtaining Climate Change Articles from...

Ram Search

Search for articles, books, journals, and more!

Pros:
- Searches multiple databases at one time
- Can be useful for interdisciplinary topics
- Can see the list of databases searched, then choose a few specific ones to make a custom search
- Can limit to peer-reviewed journals only
- Defaults to finding only full-text results
Cons:
- Not able to search every database we have
- Tends to be less precise, more like a Google search
- Searches books, news and other stuff, too; may have to filter those results out
- Defaults to finding only full-text results - you may miss citations that would be useful for assignments

If you try this, use the advanced search page to get more precise searches

pointing hand For database searching help, contact a librarian, or try these searching tips.

Getting More Full Text

Many of our databases make articles immediately available as full-text PDFs or text on webpages
If not, then use the 'Full Text Finder' link
Even if the database you found an article citation in doesn’t have the full text right there, click on this link to check for full text in other library databases
This means: DON'T limit to full text when searching our databases

Top Databases that have information about the Climate Change Controversy

General Purpose Databases

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources. With extensive coverage in key subject areas such as, biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology, researchers are able to find accurate information and articles in both PDF and HTML formats with ease.
Expanded Academic ASAP This link opens in a new window
Access a wide variety of sources from every academic concentration. Use this database to research topics in Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily. Coverage goes back to 1980 with over 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text).

Databases Focusing on Current Events / Controversial Topics

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Gale in Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more, Global Issues is updated daily and offers 250 country pages and more than 400 issue pages. Exclusive to Global Issues, more than 6,000 viewpoint commentaries provide background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, Extreme Weather, and more. Global Issues is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints for users with access to both resources.

Psychology Databases

PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is an essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.
Psychology Collection This link opens in a new window
This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Your library's users will have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Sociology Databases

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX with Full Text includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 617 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.

Science Databases

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text access to over 180 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from 60 scholarly publishers.
Science Database - Proquest This link opens in a new window
A growing resource of 7.3 mllion full text articles from over 1600 sources, supporting the needs of students studying applied and general sciences.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Science Direct offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Science Direct has over 950 scholarly, scientific journals available.
Science in Context This link opens in a new window
Integrating millions of full-text articles that include national and global publications, 200+ science experiments, 300+ interactive simulations, other multimedia, and top reference content, Science is updated daily and offers over 600 pages on topics across the curriculum, covering biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, physics, and more.

Finding Journals at FSU:

Browse journals by topic on our Journal Search Page
Search for a specific journal by name on our Journal Search Page
Journals may be available from more than one source; journal coverage (years available) may vary
Some journals may have 'embargoes' (full-text delays) of up to one year
Please request articles NOT currently available full-text at FSU by using our Interlibrary Loan Form

Selected journals containing info related to the climate change controversy

Climate Change Economics
Publishes theoretical and empirical papers devoted to analyses of mitigation, adaptation, impacts, and other issues related to the policy and management of greenhouse gases.
Climate Policy
International journal publishing high quality research into climate-change policy, including adaptation, negotiations and impact.
Climatic Change
"Provides a means of exchange among those working in different disciplines on problems related to climatic variations."
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change
Covers topics in climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective.
World Watch
"Examines the connections between human economies and the health of the natural environment by monitoring global changes in climate, forest cover, population, poverty, water resources, biological diversity and other major trends."

Google Scholar

Google has a specialized search that allows you to limit your search to scholarly articles
- NOTE: There is no way to limit Google Scholar search results to be just peer-reviewed
- If you find a journal online, the journal website/home page will tell you if it is peer-reviewed, in one of these 2 areas:
  - the 'Info for authors' area
  - the 'about this journal' area
Follow the links (when available) on the right hand side of the Google Scholar results listing to retrieve full text of search results
Below each search result there is an icon of double quotes that links to citation information
Check FSU for full-text of citations found online: Run the complete article title as a phrase search in RamSearch
Request articles NOT currently available at FSU via our Interlibrary Loan Request Form.

FSU's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Service

FSU students can receive from other libraries, at no cost to themselves, copies of articles that are NOT available full text at FSU
While searching library databases, if our site does not have access to article full text, you will have an option to click a link to an ILL form that is already half filled out
- Complete that online form and submit it to request that article
- Don't forget to fill out the part of the form asking what is the date after which you do not need the desired article any more
- You will receive in your e-mail box either a link/password to retrieve your article, or an attached PDF
- We have no control over how quickly requested articles arrive, so plan accordingly
The library site also has a link to a blank ILL Request Form
- Use the blank version if you find a citation for an article online, can't get full text online or at FSU, and still want to get a copy
  - To use the blank ILL form, you need a library card number
  - If you do not have one, please stop by the Circulation Desk, or call them at: (508) 626 - 4650 for more information