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ENSP 100: Mapping for Community Nature Rx

What is a Database?

What is a database?

The library databases contain journal articles and other scholarly information. Sometimes a database will contain the entire journal article, and sometimes it will only contain an abstract. Databases are searchable by subject, keyword, author, and more. They can be seen as the tool that you use to search and access scholarly publications, such as peer-reviewed journal articles.

Finding Journal Articles

Best Bets for ENSP 100

Searching

Need to do a more specific search in a database? See this video and this video for more informationon about searching databases by keyword.

(geothermal OR thermo* OR steam* OR "hot springs") as Subjects AND (energy OR electric* OR power) as Subjects

Constructing a good search

Not finding anything?