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Landscape Architecture Resources at Mount Holyoke

Searching for Articles

Use a database that covers your subject area to find articles published on your topic.

  • use the words AND, OR and NOT to combine words
  • put quotation marks around phrases, ex. "civil war"
  • use *  as a wildcard to stand in for letters, ex. educat* finds education, educational, education

To narrow your results, use the database tools to limit by

  • Peer-reviewed, scholarly articles: articles reviewed and approved by experts in the field before publication
  • document type: select or elimitate articles, book chapters, newspaper articles, dissertations
  • date: only see results of articles published within a useful time period

When you find articles you want:

  • use  to locate or request the full text
  • select the results that are useful and save, email, print, or export them

Databases

AGRICOLA  (1979- ) Agriculture/Rural Development Literature Index.  Useful for information on women in development, women and the environment, etc.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934- )

Environment & Energy News Daily

GreenFILE (1960's- ) Environmental Studies Literature Index

Greenwire News stories on energy and the environment

ScienceDirect

  • Covers approximately 1800 journals from Reed-Elsevier Publishing
  • Includes publications from 1995-present

 Web of Science

  •  Covers 5,700 journals in science and over 2,000 in other disciplines
  • Search by cited reference to find newer papers that cite older papers you have already found 

Google Scholar Multi-disciplinary Database

Google Scholar Search

Locating full text from within a database

Clicking the MHLinks button for an article will help you locate the full text.

  • available online: click direct link
  • availble in print: follow link to search catalog, click "call numbers and availability for years available.  Humanities journals: Williston floor 2 1/2, Science journals: Miles-Smith floor 2. 
  • not available at MHC: click "request via Illiad" to have it delivered electronically

 

Does Mount Holyoke have this journal online?

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Does Mount Holyoke have this journal in print at the library?

Library Catalog Quick Search

Omit initial articles (the, an, a, les, des, etc.)
  • Click on "Call numbers and availability" to see the years available
  • Humanities journals are located on Williston 2 1/2, Science journals are in Miles Smith 2
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