12021-07-13T15:19:43-07:00Articles72plain2022-05-11T09:48:47-07:00Jessy inspected the Climate Change LibGuide which had several tabs and decided to focus on the Home tab. The Home tab included databases that had been broken down into 3 categories:
• Key Resources-The types of resources in which you normally begin a search; sources that specifically connect to the topic/subject • Related Resources-Subject specific resources that lay outside the subject/discipline but maybe relevant to the topic • General Resources-Interdisciplinary resources that cover a wide variety of subjects/disciplines
Jessy started with the General Resources section and picked a multi-discipline database she knew well from her high school days; Academic Search (EBSCO).
She did a basic search using the terms “peatland restoration and Asia”.
Then, similar to IUCAT she used the limiters on the left-hand side of the screen to refine the results to only show scholarly/peer-reviewed journals since this was a requirement of the assignment.
Jessy found just the right amount of articles that were applicable and would bridge her topic to the broader conditions of peatland degradation in Southeast Asia and how the problem was being handled in the region as a whole.
With her confidence growing Jessy wanted to see what the Key Resources section of the guide had to offer. After reading the descriptions of the different databases she chose ScienceDirect and performed another search using the terms "peatland and soil Conservation and Indonesia".
Jessy hit the jackpot and found a huge amount of amazing articles that spoke directly to the environmental aspects of peatland loss and how peatland fires in Indonesia contributes to Climate Change.
Jessy had found enough information to start her paper but she wanted a diversified bibliography and to also impress the Climate Queen. She navigated to the Government Information Research Guide and under the Databases by Topic tab she found the sections titled International Document & Information and Foreign Documents & International Information.
Jessy examined the databases and of the 3 listed: one was a newspaper database, the other was a subject specific database (Political Science) but the last one was intriguingly. It was a resource from an Inter-governmental Organization (IGO), the World Bank. Jessy did a search on "peatland and Indonesia" and found 2 applicable books.
She was now ready to evaluate and organize the material she acquired to commence with the reading and highlighting portion of her research project. Yet, she understood where to look and what to do if she needed more information.
