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Environmental Science for Sustainability, Ecosystems and Technology (ESSET): Finding information

Part of Academy of Life Sciences en Technologie (ALST)

Introduction

A search engine searches for websites. In addition to general search engines such as Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo (a search engine that does not store your search behavior), there are also search engines on the internet that specifically search for certain types of information. An example is Google Scholar for scholarly information. Each search engine has its own way of searching and displaying results. It can be useful for your research to try other search engines as well. 

Finding information

Use of AI

Kaluga

Via the Avans search engine Kaluga many e-books, books, journal articles and databases can be looked up. You can search on topic, author, title, publisher or search term combinations. It includes the Avans catalogue and also some of the databases and has access to (scholarly) articles. You can specify your search by using the filters on the left. 

Add the title, author or search terms into the search bar below and directly search Kaluga

Journals

To search for journals, you can use BrowZine: Engineering and Technology — Avans Hogeschool — BrowZine
With BrowZine you can browse through your own collection and share and save articles. You put together your own magazine shelf, as it were. This way, you will always have access to the latest issues.