Coastal & Marine Sciences
A guide to resources for the Five College Certificate Program in Coastal & Marine Sciences.
Looking at popular magazines to scaffold information
When starting a research project, it is sometimes helpful to search popular magazines to scaffold information and learn the level of information communicated to a public audience.
The database Academic Search Premier is the ONLY database that will let you search specifically for magazine and trade publications.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.
Journals to Browse
- Atlantic CoastWatchAdvocacy from the Sustainable Development Institute
- CMC OceanNews about the oceans from the Center for Marine Conservation.
Databases for finding articles
- BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new windowIndexes content from journals, conferences, books, and U.S. patents covering the life sciences and biomedical research since 1926.
- Environment Index This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the environment from scientific, legal, and popular journals, 1950s- present.
- GeoRef This link opens in a new windowCovers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.
