SCU RAISE

SCU Library Catalogue

Find a range of resources across all disciplines:

• print and electronic books and journals
• scholarly/peer-reviewed articles
• conference proceedings
• images
• newspapers
• sound recordings and scores
• videos
• maps
• theses

Note: signing into the catalogue will provide better results by limiting to publications that you can directly access.

Example search strategy:

• tourism AND “theme parks”
• tourism AND (“theme park” OR “amusement park”)

Databases

Find discipline specific resources:

• type of resources (journal articles, book chapters, newspapers etc.) depends on the database
• locate relevant databases for your subject area in our LibGuides

Note: if you find an item that is not available in SCU library collection, you can sign-in via the catalogue and request a ‘non-SCU item‘.

Example search strategy:

This example (for the topic community forest management in Australia or New Zealand within the Web of Science database) shows a structured search using the Boolean operators, truncation and nesting using parentheses to tie the search together.

• (Australia OR “New Zealand” OR Aotearoa) AND (“community forest* management” OR “co-management forest*” OR “joint management forest*” OR “participatory forest*” OR “Indigenous forest* reserve*” OR “decentrali* forest*” OR “integrated conservation development pro*” OR “ICDP*”)

Example from SCU Library Catalogue

Example from Ebsco database

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Example from Web of Science database

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Searching the SCU Library Catalogue

Searching databases

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