Periodical articles: SCC Library & beyondKeep up-to-date by browsing professional periodicals (newsletters, trade journals, & scholarly journals) and by searching for articles on a particular topic.
Multiple ways to find articles:
Building the Inland Northwest in the Journal of Business
Each year in March, the Journal of Business publishes a special issue called Building the Inland Northwest. It features news about residential, commercial, and educational building in Spokane area and the Inland Northwest including information on topics like:
Search Library databases to efficiently find articles on a topic of your choice:
To efficiently search library databases, use filters within the database and try search terms you think might be in the article's title, description, or full-text.
Use keywords in your searching. Select words or phrases which you predict will appear in an article title or description or full-text.
Enclose a phrase (a string of 2 or more words) in quotation marks. Example: "global warming"
Truncate (cut off) search terms using an asterisk. The asterisk works as a wildcard. The search term: recyc* will retrieve articles which contain any word starting with r-e-c-y-c, like recycle, recycled, recycling, etc.
Combine multiple search concepts using the Boolean terms: AND, OR, NOT
cladding
"straw bale construction"
"green architecture" AND cladding
"employee retention" AND "small business"
"lean manufacturing" AND "mechanical engineering"
"green design" AND roof*
"green roof" OR "roof gardens"
LEED AND (architecture OR construction)
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