- Finding Books
- Finding Articles
- Nutrition
- Child Play and Learning
- West Philadelphia
- More on Sustainable Design
Finding Books
| Try searching the catalog for books your topic: | |
| Try a keyword search: | child play |
| Try a keyword search: | west philadelphia |
| Try a keyword search: | nutrition and learning |
Finding Articles
 Avery Index – ELECTRONICThe Avery is the largest database devoted to architecture and design journals.This is a good place to look for precedent, or case studies. |
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| BuildingGreen.com – ELECTRONIC This electronic resource includes articles from Environmental Building News as well as GreenSpec, a convenient way to locate environmentally conscious building materials. |
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| Google Scholar – WWW Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. To link to Drexel full text from Google Scholar, first add Drexel in the Library Links within Scholar Preferences. |
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| Proquest – ELECTRONIC Large multi-disciplinary database with a lot of full-text access. It covers just about everything and is often a good place to start. |
Nutrition
| Expanded Academic – ELECTRONIC Another large multi-disciplinary database including nutritiion journals. |
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| Nutrition Research Guide – WWW This research guide was compiled by Drexel University Libraries’ science librarian, Peggy Dominy. |
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| Proquest – ELECTRONIC Large multi-disciplinary database with a lot of full-text access. It covers just about everything- including nutrition – and is often a good place to start. Try using the search terms: GARDEN AND CURRICULA. |
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| PsychINFO – ELECTRONIC This is a wonderful psychology database that covers many aspects of learning. Try doing a keyword search for: NUTRITION AND LEARNING (also be sure to UNCHECK the box “map to subject heading”). |
Child Play and Learning
| Education Periodicals (1986-Present) – ELECTRONIC Professional magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related issues. Provides full-text access to over 350 education journals, as part of the larger Proquest database. |
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| Education Research Guide – WWW This research guide was compiled by Drexel University Libraries’ education librarian, Tim Siftar. |
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| PsychINFO -- ELECTRONIC This is a wonderful psychology database that covers many aspects of learning. Try doing a keyword search for: LEARNING AND PLAY (also be sure to UNCHECK the box “map to subject heading”). |
History of West Philadelphia
| First, try searching the catalog for books. See the section above for suggested keyword searches. |
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| New York Times (Current) – ELECTRONIC This Proquest product allows you to search the New York Times from 1980 – present (no pictures). |
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| New York Times (Historical) – ELECTRONIC via Proquest, full text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 – 2003, including original images. |
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| Philadelphia Inquirer – ELECTRONIC You can search the archives of the Inquirer (back to 1981) via our NewsBank subscription. |
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| Proquest – ELECTRONIC Large multi-disciplinary database with a lot of full-text access. It covers just about everything and is often a good place to start |
More on Sustainable Design
| See also the Research Guide for the Architecture for Humanity Design Charrette. |
