Search Summon to easily find peer-reviewed journal articles on any topic.  Remember to refine your search by selecting the following options: Scholarly & Peer-Review, Journal Article and Discipline to obtain high quality, academic literature (see diagram below).

You can also limit your search to many other source types in Summon, such as books/e-books, newspapers, magazines, trade publications, videos, dissertations or conference proceedings. While many sources are published in different formats and written for specific audiences, they do not have solid authority as with the scholarly, peer reviewed literature.

You can also search subject-specific databases to find journal articles. They offer many advanced search features, only contain scholarly literature, and search results are more focused.

Subject-Specific databases for environmental studies:

• Academic Onefile
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Environment Index
• GEOBASE
• GreenFile
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Full Text
• TRID Transportation Research
• Web of Science

Note: If the library does not have what you need, you can order books and/or journal articles from other libraries through RACER. If you are a first time user, you must register first before you can start using it.

Key Journals

• Alternatives Journal
• Ambio: a journal of the human environment
• Canadian Journal of Environmental Education
• Environments
• Environmental Politics
• Ethics and the Environment
• Journal of Environment and Development
• Local Environment
• Nature
• Society and Space (Environment and Planning D)

The red arrows on this sample Summon search show the elements selected to refine the search.

• Data Basin
• GEO Data Portal (UNEP)
• Canada's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• EnviroStats (Stats Can)
• Human Activity and the Environment (Stats Can)
• Scholars GeoPortal

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