Sometimes you will need to look up words or get some basic information before you are able to fully understand the articles you are reading in scientific journals. Using these encyclopedias and dictionaries can help to get your research started. All of the titles listed below are available online, but there are still lots of good reference resources available in PRINT in both McCabe & Cornell's collections.
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Physics 24 : Earth's Climate/Global Warming (Collings) (SC)
Finding Definitions & Background Information:
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Full-text access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily.
Climate change
CQ Researcher online report which provides an excellent overview on the topic, complete with graphs, additional websites and references, chronologies and much more.
Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth is a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
Finding Books:
Ebrary
Academic Complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers, including life and physical sciences (2,400 titles). It spans all subjects.
Note: If you plan to PRINT from eBrary titles, you will be restricted to printing only TWENTY pages at a time, and FORTY pages in one session. If you need to print more than forty pages, you will need to close the browser & then open a new window (but copy the URL of the e-Book before you close, so you can paste it into the new browser window).
Finding Journal Articles:
You should be able to find what you need for this course's papers and assignments here at Swarthmore. If you are having difficulty finding materials here, please talk to your professor or drop by the Science Librarian's office and talk to Meg Spencer. And look for the 
button to link you to the online article, if we have access to it.
button to link you to the online article, if we have access to it.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
An interdisciplinary database which has much full-text. Always a good place to start. Covers 1971-present.
GreenFILE
Scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. [You will need to SELECT GreenFILE from the list of EBSCO databases.]
Web of science
Provider: ISI
This multidisciplinary database can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that CITE a known author or work can also be searched. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic. Coverage for the Science Citation Index in WofS goes back to 1900.
Google scholar
Google Scholar often digs up good resources that the other databases don't. So it is a good database to use in addition to the others. Use the "Check Tripod" and "Find it @ Swarthmore" links to see if we have access to full text.
Finding Goverment Web Sites:
EPA: Global Change
"EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments."
Globalchange.gov
Provides information on U.S. government agency programs, data policies, publications, and research. Includes a search engine to find data sets available from U.S. government agencies involved in global change research.
National Climatic Data Center
Described as the 'world's largest archive of climate data'. There is a good overview page on global warming.
InterLibrary Loan & TriCollege Borrowing:
While Cornell Library has a really good collection, obviously there will be times when we don't actually own something you've located in your research. That is when you'll need to borrow from other libraries and to do this you will need Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
Tri-College ILL - BOOKS: If you want a book from Bryn Mawr or Haverford, simply press the REQUEST button at the top of the Tripod screen. Enter your name & barcode, and select WHERE you want to pick up the book. Delivery takes approximately one day library to library.
Non-TriCollege ILL - BOOKS: For books NOT available in Tripod, try E-Z Borrow and request books directly from nearby Pennsylvania & NJ libraries. Books usually arrive within a few days.
JOURNAL ARTICLES: For articles in journals not available from the main libraries in TriCo*, use the online ILL form. You must put the COMPLETE JOURNAL TITLE in your request - do not use abbreviations, or your request will most likely be sent back to you. For complete journal titles, check the book behind the Circulation Desk, or go to Journal Abbreviation Sources.
* Journals DO circulate from main libraries, so if you need an article from a non-science library journal, place a hold on the actual journal volume in Tripod and it will be sent via TriCo van!
Citing Information:
Ask your professor what citation style you should use for your papers. If there is no preference, copy the format set out by a journal you cite in your paper. For trickier items, like web pages, check out the Duke University Citation Guide or our own Guide to Citing in the Sciences. Or for electronic citation software, check out Endnote Web or Zotero.
Duke University Citation Guide
For information on CITING information, check out this online guide. It gives examples of different citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago & Turabian) for both print and electronic resources.