Guides: MyResearch (Agriculture, environmental sciences & nutrition): Module 1: Research Foundations

Module 1: Research Foundations

The best place to look for books on your topic is the Library Catalogue, called McGill WorldCat
ebooks are also listed in the Library Catalogue (McGill WorldCat), or they may be searched by individual collection/provider. See Library Subject Guides, or the eBooks & Media website for suggestions

The best place to search for scholarly articles on your topic is an article database

Pubmed: 1946 to the present
Published by U.S. National Library of Medicine, includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals.
BIOSIS Citation Index (subject-specific): 1926 to the present
Encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research.
CAB Abstracts (subject-specific): 1973 to the present
A bibliographic database that covers research and literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, nutrition, animal health, and resource management and conservation.
Compendex: 1884 to the present
Covers all aspects of engineering, including biotechnology.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection: 1960 to the present
Comprehensive coverage of the agricultural and environmental sciences including, for example, bacteriology, environmental biotechnology, agricultural economics, biodiversity, etc. This database also includes Pollution Abstracts, Toxline, and Water Resources Abstracts.

See library subject guides for more recommendations of subject-specific article databases appropriate for your discipline.

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Boolean operator	AND	e.g. insect AND migration: will retrieve articles containing both words; this will decrease your search results
Boolean operator	OR	e.g. migration OR dispersal: will retrieve articles containing either (or both) words petroleum OR oil, this will increase your search results
Parentheses	(...)	e.g. insect AND (migration OR dispersal): will retrieve articles with insect AND migration or articles with insect AND dispersal
Phrase searching	“___”	e.g. "global warming": will retrieve articles containing the phrase global warming
Truncation	*/?	e.g. dispers:* will retrieve articles containing the words disperse, disperses, dispersing, dispersal, etc.