Global Climate Change

Articles

CQ Researcher

Greenblatt, Alan. "Confronting Warming: Can states and localities prevent climate change?" CQ Researcher 9 Jan. 2009. Growing concern about climate change has led states and cities to adopt new policies to try to conserve energy and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. California recently adopted new rules that aim to reduce such gases by 30 percent by 2020, while a cap on carbon emissions in the Northeast took effect Jan. 1. But critics say the efforts are more symbolic than substantive, pushing real sacrifices far off into the future. Many business groups, meanwhile, complain that the new rules will increase the cost of energy and hurt the economy — despite current promises that a "Green New Deal" can create jobs. The Obama administration promises to be far more aggressive in addressing global warming than the skeptical Bush White House. Even though the issue is coming to the fore in Washington, states and cities that have filled the policy vacuum in recent years pledge to stay vigilant in addressing the issue. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Reducing Your Carbon Footprint: Can individual actions reduce global warming?." CQ Researcher 5 Dec. 2008.

Weeks, Jennifer. "Carbon Trading: Will it reduce global warming?." CQ Global Researcher November 2008. Carbon emissions trading — the buying and selling of permits to emit greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil fuels — is becoming a top strategy for reducing pollution that causes global climate change.

Woodard, Colin. "Curbing Climate Change: Is the world doing enough?." CQ Global Researcher. February 2007.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Climate Change: Is tougher action needed to slow rising temperatures? ." CQ Researcher. 27 Jan. 2006 : 73-96.

EBSCOhost:

Search Subject: climatic changes OR global warming - over 8400 full text articles

Search: ( cap-and-trade or carbon trading ) or SU emissions trading - over 1325 full text articles.

ProQuest:

Search in Subject: global warming or climate change - over 6700 feature articles

Search Keyword: cap-and-trade or carbon trading or emissions trading - over 500 feature articles

FACTS.com: "Key Issue: Global Warming." World News Digest. Facts On File News Services. Introductory article with links to key news events.

Books

Search the CBC Library Catalog:
su,wrdl: climat change
su,wrdl: global warming

Ebrary

Roberts, J. Timmons and Bradley C. Parks. Climate of Injustice : Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. MIT Press, 2006.

Cox, John. Climate Crash : Abrupt Climate Change and What it Means for Our Future. National Academies Press, 2005.

Or search Ebrary for over 50 ebooks on the subjects of 'climatic changes' and 'global warming.'

Reference

Selin, Henrik. "Global Warming." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2008.

Search: climate change in Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oxford Reference Online - over 45 definitions and reference entries.

Websites

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

United States. Dept. of Commerce. Natl. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Climatic Data Center.

RealClimate - "commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists."

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Guns

Jost, Kenneth. "Gun Rights Debate." CQ Researcher 31 Oct. 2008.
The Supreme Court gave gun rights advocates a major victory on June 26, recognizing for the first time an individual right under the Second Amendment to own and possess firearms. The 5-4 decision struck down a handgun ban adopted by the District of Columbia in 1976. Gun rights advocates the very same day began challenging similar bans in Chicago and elsewhere. In his majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said the decision did not invalidate laws establishing qualifications to buy weapons, limiting the carrying of weapons in "sensitive" places or barring possession by felons or the mentally ill. Dissenting justices argued the ruling misinterpreted the history of the Second Amendment and would lead the court into striking down many gun laws. Gun control groups hope the ruling sets the stage for more reasoned debate over gun regulations by removing the specter of confiscation of weapons. But gun owners plan to use the ruling to challenge licensing schemes and to urge state legislators to ease restrictions on carrying weapons in public.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.


FACTS.com - Gun Control

Articles

ProQuest

Search (gun* or firearm*) AND (control* or law* or violen* or crim*)

This is a very comprehensive search, returning over 20,000 full text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. You can narrow your search by adding keywords to the third row, for example "national rifle association or NRA" (only 2000 articles).

If you click on the 'More Search Options' tab under your search you will see that you can also limit your search to a Document type - just editorials, or just feature articles, for instance.

At the top of any of your results pages you will see tabs that allow you to just look at articles from one type of publication:
Scholarly journals, such as the Michigan Law Review, Magazines like U.S. News & World Report, Trade Publications like The Shooting Industry, or newspapers including New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Or do a search for the 2008 Supreme Court Case: ("District of Columbia v. Heller") OR SU("supreme court" and firearm*)

EBSCOhost

Search (gun* or firearm* or shootings) and (law* or control or violen* or crim*)

Or Search District of Columbia v. Heller or ( supreme court and firearm* )

CQ Researcher:

Jost, Kenneth. "Gun Violence." CQ Researcher 17.20 (2007): 457-480.

Adams, Bob. "Gun Control Debate." CQ Researcher 14.40 (2004): 949-972.

Books
Spitzer, Robert J. The Right to Bear Arms. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Carter, Gregg Lee. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002.


Jacobs, James B. Can Gun Control Work?. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Ludwig, Jens and Cook, Philip J. Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

Squires, Peter. Gun Culture or Gun Control: Firearms, Violence and Society. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Reference articles from Gale Virtual Reference (includes the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, and West's Encyclopedia of American Law). One particularly interesting article is an outline of gun laws in various States found in the National Survey of State Laws [Ed. Richard Leiter. 6th ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008].

Other books from our collection.

NRS 211--Sophomore Research Paper

Here are links to some resources and tips on doing research for your paper. If you're working on this from home you'll need the quarterly username/password which can be found in WebCT.

Online Reference Books
These are good places to start to get an overview of your topic. They can give you ideas on how to focus your paper, keywords to search for articles, and other sources to use.

Gale Virtual Reference.
This database includes Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer,

HINT:
Most of the articles are under the topic as assigned to you but a few are different.

Brain Cancer is under Brain Tumor
Alcoholic Cirrhosis is under Cirrhosis
Acute Pancreatitis is under Pancreatitis
Gestational trophoblastic Neoplasia is under Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
MRSA is under Staphylococcal Infections
Pandemic Influenza is under Influenza

Print Reference Books
The medical library has a lot of great reference books that can help you get an overview of your topic, find some interesting facts, etc. Here are a few titles that might be useful depending on your topic.

Oncology Nursing
Library Location: Medical Library - Reference
Call Number: RC266 .O53 2001

Cancer nursing : principles and practice
Medical Library – Reference
RC266 .C356 2005

A guide to treatments that work
Medical Library - Reference
Call Number: RC480.5 .G85 2007

Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing
Medical Library – Reference
RC440 .T689 2005

The human heart : a basic guide to heart disease
Medical Library – Reference
RC681 .P529 2007

Braunwald’s heart disease : a textbook of cardiovascular medicine
Medical Library - Reference
Call Number: RC681 .H36 2005

The encyclopedia of hepatitis and other liver diseases
Reference
Call Number: RC845 .C46 2006


Print Books
The library has books on several of the topics you've been assigned. If the book is in the Main Collection (not Reference) in Pasco let me know and it can be brought to Richland for you.

Library Catalog

Online Books
The online books through Ovid are nice because you can search for specific information and not need to read through the entire book.
Ovid Books

Articles
Articles are going to be more up-to-date than books and give you more specific information than reference sources. We recently changed our CINAHL access to EBSCOhost so to be inclusive you should search CINAHL as well as Ovid Journals.

CINAHL

Ovid Journals

Internet
You need to be careful getting medical information off the Internet but government sites can be trusted. A great site to search a lot of government websites is MedlinePlus