Explore the current conversation in online journalism and analysis.
Tip: If you hit a paywall at the NY Times, you may look for full text articles from the NY Times in the library's ProQuest database.
When you go to this database, you'll see the advanced search page. However, by clicking on the larger "Gale Ebooks" title in the upper left, you can be taken to a page where you can see all the collections in the database listed out by subject. As shown in the image below, you can easily look through the listings of subjects off to the left to browse through subject-specific encyclopedias.
GVRL has collections on business, environment, medicine, science, and technology.
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As in this search shown in the image below for the broad topic: "green economy":
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Browse Article Titles and the Subjects List for ways to focus your search results
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Holman Library provides online access to thousands of journals in STEM fields.
You can look through a specific journal or explore a broad topic in a STEM database to generate research ideas.
Browse through the Table of Contents of STEM journals in the Holman Library online collection to get a sense of the kinds of topics and questions addressed in current research. Note that every journal has its own scope of research. (You can look it up!)
To see if the library carries a specific title, type the publication into the One Search. After your initial search, change to Advanced Search and change "any field" to "publication title."
You can even browse the catalog to see what journals we carry in a specific field!
Explore a general topic in a STEM database to generate research ideas.
Topic selection and development is part of the research process.