Grant Writing: Ithaca College Natural Lands
Trails--Design and construction
Trails--Environmental aspects
Trails--New York (State)--Finger Lakes Region
Trails--New York (State)--Guidebooks
Trails--United States--Design
Trails--United States--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Trails--United States--Guidebooks
Natural areas--Government policy--United States
Natural areas--New York (State)--Tompkins County
Natural areas--United States
Philosophy of nature
Nature--Psychological aspects
Nature--Religious aspects
Nature--Social aspects
Nature conservation--Philosophy
Nature conservation--United States
Nature conservation--United States--History
Wilderness areas -- United States
Wilderness areas--United States--History
National parks and reserves--United States
Landscape assessment
Landscape assessment--History
Landscape assessment--United States
Landscape protection
Landscape ecology
Land use--United States
Land use--Environmental aspects--United States
Land use--United States
Land trusts--United States
Conservation easements--United States
Forest ecology
Forest conservation
Plant conservation
Plant diversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation
Biological diversity conservation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation--United States
Ecosystem management
Ecosystem management--United States
Human beings--Influence of environment
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Human beings--Effect of environment on--History
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States--History
Human ecology--Philosophy
Human ecology--North America
Human ecology--United States
Human ecology--United States--History
Human beings--Influence on nature
Nature--Effect of human beings on
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History
Ecology--Moral and ethical aspects
Ecology--Philosophy
Environmentalism
Environmentalism--History
Environmentalism--Philosophy
Environmentalism--United States
Environmental degradation
Environmental ethics
Environmental ethics--United States
Environmental policy--United States
Environmental policy--United States--History
Environmental protection--Moral and ethical aspects
Environmental protection--United States
Environmental protection--United States--Citizen participation
Environmental protection--United States--History
Environmental responsibility
Environmental responsibility--United States
Environmental justice
Environmental justice--United States
Trails--Environmental aspects
Trails--New York (State)--Finger Lakes Region
Trails--New York (State)--Guidebooks
Trails--United States--Design
Trails--United States--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Trails--United States--Guidebooks
Natural areas--Government policy--United States
Natural areas--New York (State)--Tompkins County
Natural areas--United States
Philosophy of nature
Nature--Psychological aspects
Nature--Religious aspects
Nature--Social aspects
Nature conservation--Philosophy
Nature conservation--United States
Nature conservation--United States--History
Wilderness areas -- United States
Wilderness areas--United States--History
National parks and reserves--United States
Landscape assessment
Landscape assessment--History
Landscape assessment--United States
Landscape protection
Landscape ecology
Land use--United States
Land use--Environmental aspects--United States
Land use--United States
Land trusts--United States
Conservation easements--United States
Forest ecology
Forest conservation
Plant conservation
Plant diversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation
Biological diversity conservation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation--United States
Ecosystem management
Ecosystem management--United States
Human beings--Influence of environment
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Human beings--Effect of environment on--History
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States
Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States--History
Human ecology--Philosophy
Human ecology--North America
Human ecology--United States
Human ecology--United States--History
Human beings--Influence on nature
Nature--Effect of human beings on
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History
Ecology--Moral and ethical aspects
Ecology--Philosophy
Environmentalism
Environmentalism--History
Environmentalism--Philosophy
Environmentalism--United States
Environmental degradation
Environmental ethics
Environmental ethics--United States
Environmental policy--United States
Environmental policy--United States--History
Environmental protection--Moral and ethical aspects
Environmental protection--United States
Environmental protection--United States--Citizen participation
Environmental protection--United States--History
Environmental responsibility
Environmental responsibility--United States
Environmental justice
Environmental justice--United States
General OneFile :
The most user-friendly of our comprehensive databases, covering almost any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles and offering lots of full text. Use the default Subject search to find the best subject heading for your topic (and when you find a good one be sure to look at the "Related Subjects" to see if there's something even better).
When you settle on a subject heading, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searchs produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect: "Economic aspects," "Energy use," "Environmental aspects," "Ethical aspects," "Forecasts and Trends," "Laws," "Political aspects," "Social aspects," and "Statistics," to name only a few.
Among the Subjects available here are Trails (over 6400 hits, and with subdivisions such as Access, Appreciation, Design & Construction, Government finance, Management, Planning and Usage), Hiking, Nature reserves, Forest reserves, and Environmental management.
If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
Academic Search Premier :
Comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved.
ScienceDirect :
Because it’s a large database with a great deal of full text, the absence of Subject searching means that your Keyword searches will often retrieve large sets of articles, many of which mention but don’t discuss your search term(s). One way around this is to limit your initial search to the “Abstract Title Keyword” field. For example, try trails or "nature reserves" in one slot and--design or access or marketing--in the next. Once you have found an article that sounds on-target, click on it--the article title, not the pdf version--and then to the right click on the "view more articles" link to open a range of articles on the same topic.
GreenFILE & SocINDEX with Full Text :
As the names imply, excellent databases for environmental issues and their social ramifications. Click on the "Subject Terms" link above the search slots to find which Subject Headings will work here—for instance browse the Subject headings beginning with the word “Environmental,” including “Environmental ethics,” Environmental justice,” and “Environmental responsibility.” Double click any Heading for a list of broader, narower, and related Subject Terms.
The most user-friendly of our comprehensive databases, covering almost any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles and offering lots of full text. Use the default Subject search to find the best subject heading for your topic (and when you find a good one be sure to look at the "Related Subjects" to see if there's something even better).
When you settle on a subject heading, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searchs produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect: "Economic aspects," "Energy use," "Environmental aspects," "Ethical aspects," "Forecasts and Trends," "Laws," "Political aspects," "Social aspects," and "Statistics," to name only a few.
Among the Subjects available here are Trails (over 6400 hits, and with subdivisions such as Access, Appreciation, Design & Construction, Government finance, Management, Planning and Usage), Hiking, Nature reserves, Forest reserves, and Environmental management.
If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
Academic Search Premier :
Comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved.
A good initial strategy in this database is to search a likely topic in the Subject Terms and when you find it “explode” the term by double clicking it--this brings up a list of related Subject terms. You can check as many terms as you like before "adding" them to your search by AND-ing or OR-ing them together. Among the Subjects available here are Trails, Trails--design & construction, Trails--maintenance & repair, Trials--public use, Nature trails, Hiking, Forests & forestry--recreational use, Natural areas, and Protected areas.
User Advisory: For any retrieved set of articles, there will be a box displayed on the left that will limit the articles to “Scholarly” journals—just check the box and click the “Update Results” button below.
ProQuest Research Library :
Another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. Subect searching can be a more efficient way to search than with only Keywords, since it guarantees that the articles retrieved actually be about the Subject--not just use a particular word. Among the Subjects available here are Trails, Hiking, Conservation, Parks & recreation areas, Landscape ecology, and Forests.
Note that to the right of your search results you can limit your retrieval by "Source Type" (including Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Journals), "Document Type," (including Cover Story, Editorial, or Interview), "Document Feature" (including Photographs, Illustrations), and "Location."
Above each set of articles you retrieve ProQuest will display related Subject searches to help either broaden or narrow your focus.
User Advisory: ProQuest is fussy about entering Subject searches in the designated search slot. If your subject is a person, enter the name--last name first--in the "Person" slot; if a named group of any kind--Microsoft, the Catholic Church, Radiohead, the New York Mets--enter it in "Co/Org"; if a place enter it in "Location."
Another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. Subect searching can be a more efficient way to search than with only Keywords, since it guarantees that the articles retrieved actually be about the Subject--not just use a particular word. Among the Subjects available here are Trails, Hiking, Conservation, Parks & recreation areas, Landscape ecology, and Forests.
Note that to the right of your search results you can limit your retrieval by "Source Type" (including Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Journals), "Document Type," (including Cover Story, Editorial, or Interview), "Document Feature" (including Photographs, Illustrations), and "Location."
Above each set of articles you retrieve ProQuest will display related Subject searches to help either broaden or narrow your focus.
User Advisory: ProQuest is fussy about entering Subject searches in the designated search slot. If your subject is a person, enter the name--last name first--in the "Person" slot; if a named group of any kind--Microsoft, the Catholic Church, Radiohead, the New York Mets--enter it in "Co/Org"; if a place enter it in "Location."
ScienceDirect :
Because it’s a large database with a great deal of full text, the absence of Subject searching means that your Keyword searches will often retrieve large sets of articles, many of which mention but don’t discuss your search term(s). One way around this is to limit your initial search to the “Abstract Title Keyword” field. For example, try trails or "nature reserves" in one slot and--design or access or marketing--in the next. Once you have found an article that sounds on-target, click on it--the article title, not the pdf version--and then to the right click on the "view more articles" link to open a range of articles on the same topic.
User Advisory: Uncheck "Books" below the search slots: we don't have access to the books in this database. And if "All years" is checked you might want to change it to the last 10-year option to its right (full text goes back to 1995).
JSTOR :
JSTOR has excellent 100% full-text coverage of literary scholarship. There is no Subject searching, so remember to put phrases, titles, and authors' names in quotation marks to search them as Keyword phrases--and leave authors' names in the normal first-name last-name order. You might begin with a search on--trails and (access or marketing).
JSTOR access to journal articles begins 2-4 years prior to the present--so don't look for any criticism from the last couple of years--but coverage always extends back to the first issue of each journal--in some cases into the 19th century and beyond. If you want to focus on articles from the last 25 years, be sure to put in a date range of 1990 to 2015.
Set "Limit" to "Article"--or else you may unleash an avalanche of reviews of books on your topic.
JSTOR :
JSTOR has excellent 100% full-text coverage of literary scholarship. There is no Subject searching, so remember to put phrases, titles, and authors' names in quotation marks to search them as Keyword phrases--and leave authors' names in the normal first-name last-name order. You might begin with a search on--trails and (access or marketing).
JSTOR access to journal articles begins 2-4 years prior to the present--so don't look for any criticism from the last couple of years--but coverage always extends back to the first issue of each journal--in some cases into the 19th century and beyond. If you want to focus on articles from the last 25 years, be sure to put in a date range of 1990 to 2015.
Set "Limit" to "Article"--or else you may unleash an avalanche of reviews of books on your topic.
GreenFILE & SocINDEX with Full Text :
As the names imply, excellent databases for environmental issues and their social ramifications. Click on the "Subject Terms" link above the search slots to find which Subject Headings will work here—for instance browse the Subject headings beginning with the word “Environmental,” including “Environmental ethics,” Environmental justice,” and “Environmental responsibility.” Double click any Heading for a list of broader, narower, and related Subject Terms.
Few databases offer 100% full text. Most retrieve a mix of full text articles and article "citations"--article title, author(s), publication info, and usually an "abstract" or one-prargraph summary of the content. When a citation makes you want the full text, look below it for this icon:
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
- "GETIT" will usually find the full text in another database and open it in a new window.
- If none of our databases can access the full text but we have a print subsciption to the journal, "GETIT" will retrieve the Library catalog record for the journal so that you can see if the date of the article falls within the date range we have on hand.
- If full text is not available from any database or from a print subsciption, "GETIT" will provide a link to the IC Library's Interlibrary Loan. Log in (same as your IC e-mail)--and set up your account if you've never used it before. "GETIT" will have populated the article request form with all the necessary information and you simply submit the request elecrtonically. Most articles are supplied as digital files and will be sent to you via e-mail when they arrive.
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- Interlibrary Loan
- Plagiarism Tutorial
- Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities
- Countryside Recreation, Access and Land Use Planning : Participation, Preferences, Policies
- Beyond Preservation : Restoring and Inventing Landscapes
- Conservation Program Handbook : A Guide for Local Government Land Acquisition
- Conservancy : The Land Trust Movement in America
- Cultural Landscapes and Land Use : The Nature Conservation-Society Interface
- Growth Management and Public Land Aquisition : Balancing Conservation and Development
- Rewilding North America : A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century
- Promise of Wilderness : American Environmental Politics Since 1964
- Cities in the Wilderness : A New Vision of Land Use in America
- Mechanisms of Landscape Rehabilitation and Sustainability
- Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety : Land Management
- Investigation, Remediation and Protection of Land Resources
- Land Use Policy
- Land Use and Wildlife Resources
- Eastern Deciduous Forest : Ecology and Wildlife Conservation (2nd Edition)
- Tangled Roots : The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics
- Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes
- Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability
- Measuring Landscapes : A Planner's Handbook Beyond Preservation : Restoring and Inventing Landscapes
- Sustainable Sites Handbook : A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes
- Cayuga Trails Club This volunteer organization has been in operation since 1962. Its mission is "to explore, enjoy, and preserve wild lands and places of natural beauty and interest." The "events" calendars--coming and past--might be a source of ideas. And note the Archive of scanned Newsletters going back to 1962.
- Trails: New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Lots of useful resources here. Be sure to scroll down to the Tompkins Country link on this first page, which connects you to the TompkinsCounty.gov site for the Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council. Scoll down for Ithaca Greenways, Multi-use Trails in Tompkins County, and the Tompkins County Pedestrian Facilities Inventory. Back on the Trails in New York site, look at the Documents section, where you'll find the Black Diamond Trail Final Master Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, which covers a lot of issues relevant to local trail planning, Also look at the Technical Assistance section, where you'll find technical documents on trails, as well as design, development, and maintenance.
- American trails Bills itself as "the World's Largest Online Trials Resource." And while the "Training" webinars cost money, there is a wealth of free documents on every aspect of trail creation, mainenance, and access under "Resources."
- Parks & Trials New York The "Greenways and Trails" section here has a "Funding" page. Also check out "Parks & Trails Advocacy." Under "Publications" note that you can choose "developing Trails" as a category and find considerable free documents under "Developing and Promoting Trails." And note the linked "Report of the 2012 New York State Trail User Count."
- Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Lots of useful information here under "Experience Trails" and "Build Trails."
- New York--New Jersey Trail Conference This organization creates, protects, and promotes 2,000 miles of public trails. Under "Be Informed" see "Trail advocacy," and under "Our Communivty" see "Resources for our active vounteers," where you'll find a Volunteer Handbook and lots of poicy and "how to" documentation.
- Finger Lakes Trail Conference: Some interesting content under "What's Happening: News and Articles" and note the Finger Lakes Trail News available back to 2006 under "Members: Library" and the Links page.
- New York State Department of Conservatiobn: Central New York & New York State Department of Conservation: Hiking
- Best Practices for Increasing Trail Usage by Hikers and Walkers: 100-page booklet from HikeOntario that is packed with practical suggestions.
- Tompkins County Natural Resources Inventory: This "provides basic data for the preparation of plans, information to review proposed development plans, and data to assist in completing environmental assessment forms."
- Finger Lakes Institute:"Dedicated to the promotion of environmental research and education about the Finger Lakes and surrounding environment."
- Finger Lakes Project (at IC): "A community of educators dedicated to developing the theory and application of integrating sustainability concepts into diverse disciplines and all aspects of education."
- Environment & Society Portal: Environmental Values Collection An archive of articles.
- Conservation Gateway: Eastern Division: Recent Publications: This is an archive of linked articles maintained by the Nature Conservancy.with titles such as "Conserving Forest Ecosystems: Guidelines for Size, Condition and Landscape Requirements."
MLA is the citation style used by most disciplines in the Humanities. The guides below use the latest 2008/9 standards.
- MLA Citation Guide: Books (Print & Web)
- MLA Citation Guide: Newspaper, Magazine, Journal articles (Print & Web)
- MLA Citation Guide: Web and Multimedia
- MLA Citation Guide: In-text Citations
Also see the Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style Guide.
