The first list of databases on this page will help you find sources relating the physical aspect of your mountain, the second list will help you find information about the cultural aspects of people living in that area.
Note, you will not find "one magical source" that will address everything about your topic. It is up to you to synthesize the information you find from these sources in a cohesive manner for your project to "demonstrate the integrated and adaptive nature of human and physical systems in mountains across the world.
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Use the search statements you created from the second tab of this guide and copy/paste them into the database(s) you select below. It's a good idea to search more than one source, and you may find you'll need to adjust some of your terms. For the databases that provide multiple search boxes, as the search builder created your search statement using parentheses, you can copy/paste the full string into the first search box and not parse it out for each search box.
Physical Geography Aspects
Environment Complete from EBSCOhostThis database indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from journals, conference proceedings, and books on the agricultural, biological, social science, and technological aspects of the environment.
Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.
GreenFILE from EBSCOhostThis database indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles, books, case studies, conference papers, speeches and interviews, letters, and reports overing all aspects of human impact to the environment including agricultural, architectural, engineering, education, and the social sciences.
CAB Abstracts from CAB DirectThis databases indexes citations and abstracts from journals, books, reports, handbooks, conference proceedings, field notes, and theses in agriculture, life sciences, natural resources, veterinary sciences, applied economics, nutrition, tourism, and the environment.
Cultural Geography Aspects
Ethnic NewsWatch from ProQuestThis database indexes English- and Spanish-language, full-text articles from newspapers, magazine, and journals from around the U.S. and the world. News coverage is from Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, Appalachian, and multi-ethnic communities.
Ethnic NewsWatch delivers hundreds of important ethnic press publications. The voices of the Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities can be heard. Titles include Kurdish Life, Asian Week, Jewish Exponent, Seminole Tribune, Appalachian Heritage, The Boston Irish Reporter, Chinese America, The Filipino Express, Hmong Times, and many more. A majority of this content is exclusive to ENW and not available in any other database.
is another source you may want to search to find information. You can use the same search statement(s) you created from the "Building Searches" tab and Google Scholar will interpret your search statements using the Boolean Operators and order of operations properly.
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