Eco-consciousness and Spirituality

Topic

• There is a wide range of possible subjects you could search (selective list below)
  • try adding "moral and ethical aspects" or "religious aspects" to the following:

Agriculture, Animal industry, Animal Rights, Animal rights Movement, Animal Welfare, Animals, Climate changes, Conservation of natural resources, Ecology, Energy consumption, Energy development, Energy facilities, Energy policy, Environmental degradation, Environmental economics, Environmental law, Environmental protection, Environmental racism, Environmental responsibility, Environmentalism, Environmental ethics, Food, Food habits, Food preferences, Food industry and trade, Global Warming, Human Ecology, Livestock factories, Nature, Organic living, Plants, Sustainability, Sustainable consumption, Sustainable development

e.g, agriculture vs. agriculture ethical and moral aspects

People

• Look for the following as Author; use "quotation marks" 

Edward Abbey, Thomas Berry, Wendell Berry, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Aldo Leopold, Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, David Suzuki, Severn Cullis Suzuki, Henry Thoreau

e.g., Edward Abbey vs. "Edward Abbey"

• Very Short Introductions (Oxford University Press)
  • Scholarly introductions to topics, such as:
    • Environmental Ethics
    • Food
• Online Reference sources related to this topic
  • dictionaries
  • encyclopedias
  • handbooks

Use the Omni to identify books at Laurier.

• limit to "Books and eBooks" on the left side of search results
• remember to use "quotation marks" when searching for phrases
• limit publication year if applicable

Tutorials

• Finding books in Omni
• How to find scholarly books
• Locate books: availability and location information
• Requesting books from other libraries in Omni
• Renewing books in Omni

Use the Omni to identify articles at Laurier.

• on the results page, limit to "Articles" and "Peer-reviewed."

While Omni can be helpful in finding a lot of material, it often happens that the number of results is overwhelming. If this is the case, consider using a specialized database to find articles in a narrower field. Some examples include:

• ATLA Religion Database
• Geography and Environmental Sciences @ ProQuest

Tutorials

• Finding scholarly articles on a topic
• How to find and limit to scholarly articles in Omni
• What is a peer-reviewed journal
• Identifying peer-reviewed journals

Use the Omni to identify videos at Laurier.

• limit to "Videos" on the left side of search results
• remember to use "quotation marks" when searching for phrases
• You can also search the transcripts of videos through one of our video streaming services 
  • Beyond Crisis (single video title on climate change)
  • Curio.ca (CBC), Climate change category
  • National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Environment and Conservation category

Finding newspaper articles

• Use Omni to identify news articles
  • click on "More" at the top of the page and then "Newspapers"
• The Library subscribes to thousands of newspaper titles from around the world, so if you need help locating particular news sources, or topics across a number of papers, contact Greg Sennema.

• Chicago Manual of Style (full ebook)
• OWL Purdue Chicago Style