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UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Searching Academic Complete for Articles
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UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Professor Minett, ENL109, Fall 2022
Introduction
Finding the Academic Complete Database on the Berry Library Home Page
Searching Academic Complete for Articles
Step One: Enter key words: UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Step Two: Limit results by full text and date
Step Three: Browse Article Citations, Open PDFs of Interesting Ones
Step Four: Read the article
Step Five: Print, email, or download articles you want to keep
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Step One: Enter key words: UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Enter your keywords: UN Conference on Biodiversity.
Notice that spelling out United Nations leads to more results.
I also suggest searching for United Nations and biodiversity.
This will bring up more current articles that followed the conferences.
Example:
A more general search: United Nations and biodiversity:
Step Two: Limit results by full text and date
Once search results appear, use "limits" in the left side of the page to make adjustments for:
full-text articles
articles published within the past 20 years
The search will update itself.
Click "Search" to proceed.
Example:
Step Three: Browse Article Citations, Open PDFs of Interesting Ones
Browse the list of article citations.
Select ones of interest.
If there is an abstract, scan it to see if you want to read the entire article.
If you do, click the PDF icon or "Find Full Text" box to read the article.
Example:
Step Four: Read the article
Read the article, following Professor Minett's suggestions for writing summaries and responses.
Example:
Step Five: Print, email, or download articles you want to keep
Using the selections in the Tool Bar on the right side of the page, print, email, or save (download) your article of interest:
Example:
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