Research guides: ENVR: Environmental Technology: Home

This guide contains links to print and electronic resources that may be useful to students enrolled in the Environmental Technology program or related courses at Camosun College. It also includes specific search strategies and links to external resources.

Access to some of these resources may be limited to Camosun users only.

Best bets

Not sure where to start? Try searching one of these databases:

Applied Science & Technology with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles with an applied focus on technology, engineering and science.
Canada Commons Documents collection This link opens in a new window
Publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, etc. Part of the Canada Commons collection.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA Complete) + Canadian Major Dailies (Combined search) This link opens in a new window
Cross search these two major Canadian sources to discover magazine, journal and newspaper articles. See also the individual links in Databases A-Z to search them individually.
Sage Materials Science & Engineering This link opens in a new window
This collection includes access to peer-reviewed international journals, including the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Journal articles from Elsevier in health & life sciences, physical sciences and social & behavioral sciences. To limit results to Camosun's subscribed content only, first conduct your search, then from the left column, limit to Subscribed journals

Background reading

Curious about Nature by Tim Burt (Editor); Des Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: LB 2394 C87 2020
Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual curiosity, passion, rigour and engagement with the outdoor world - to name just a few. You may be simply noting what you see around you, making detailed records, or carrying out an experiment; all of this and much more amounts to fieldwork.
Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology by Bruno J. Strasser
Call Number: QH 324.2 S728 2019
Collecting Experiments traces the development and use of data collections, especially in the experimental life sciences, from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows that the current revolution is best understood as the coming together of two older ways of knowing--collecting and experimenting, the museum and the laboratory. Ultimately, Bruno J. Strasser argues that by serving as knowledge repositories, as well as indispensable tools for producing new knowledge, these databases function as digital museums for the twenty-first century.
Keywords for Environmental Studies (from Credo Reference) by Joni Adamson (Editor); William A. Gleason (Editor); David Pellow (Editor)
Call Number: Online
Analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies.

Writing guides

Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences
Call Number: REF G 70 H35 2011
A concise yet comprehensive guide to effective communication in academic settings, including essays, lab reports, reviews, posters, graphs, tables, maps, oral presentations, and exams.
Succeeding with Your Literature Review by Paul Oliver
Call Number: Online
This step-by-step handbook provides comprehensive and practical guidance on the process of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, as well as planning and writing a literature review. The book takes a student friendly approach to offer complete novices a simple review of a process which is often central to producing a research study.
Making Sense: a student's guide to research and writing : geography and environmental sciences by Margot Northey; Dianne Draper; David B. Knight
Call Number: G 74 N67 2019 Ref
An indispensable research and writing guide for students in any area of the discipline. Outlines general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such issues as writing essays and reports, creating powerful visual aids, and properly documenting sources.
The Visual Elements--Photography by Felice C. Frankel
Call Number: TR 692.5 F72 2023 (Lansdowne)