Skyline College Library

Rainforest Issues Links Page

Databases for Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
Links to Selected Web Sites

Magazine & Journal Databases (to access articles):

InfoTrac OneFile Database: excellent general periodical database.
Available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card (library card bar code number is required). 

• To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, check the "articles with text" box under "Limit the current search" (below the text entry box)
• To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.
• Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings (near the bottom of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
• Suggested search words:
  • indigenous peoples AND Amazon
  • indigenous peoples AND missionaries
  • missionaries AND Amazon
  • HUAO Indians (for articles on the Huaroni)
  • Waorani (for articles on the Huaroni)
  • rainforest* AND oil
  • rainforest* AND pollution
  • Amazon AND environment*

Proquest Newpapers database: a database of full-text articles from many of the most important newspapers in the country--New York Times, S. F. Chronicle, S. F. Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L. A. Times & Christian Science Monitor--as well as some regional papers from Northern California. Only available from on campus (library or computer labs).

• Select all databases by clicking on Continue
• Try same search words as suggested for Ebsco databases above

SIRS Knowledge Source: a database of all full-text articles on social issues from a wide range of magazines and newspapers; only available from on campus (library or computer labs).

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library Sytem.

• Type in the name of your topic in the search box and click the Search button.
• Suggested subject keywords:
  • rain forest?
  • indigenous peoples
  • Amazon River
  • human ecology -- tropics
  • human beings - influence on nature
  • nature - effect of human beings on
  • forest ecology - tropics
  • environmental degradation
  • forest conservation
  • deforestation
  • logging - environmental aspects
  • environmental policy
  • oil pollution
• The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the Peninsula Library Sytem.
  Limit your results to books at Skyline Library by clicking on the Limit button at the right side of the page and then scroll down to near the bottom and click on Skyline College Library and then click OK.
• NOTE: if you want to browse the shelves, try these call number sections:
  QH541.5 (rain forests) GE 50 - GE 300 (environmentalism) TD170 -- TD892 (pollution)
  

Links to Recommended Web Sites:

Rainforest Action Network - http://www.ran.org/ran/: Activist organization in support of protecting rainforest environments and indigenous peoples. Press releases, action alerts, rain forest reports, educational resources, rates ofdestruction, why they're important.

Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin.

Rainforestweb.org: World rainforest information portal

Links to Quality Web Sites on Environment Topics
(from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)

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last revised: 8-20-03 by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA