A keyword search for Julian Simon or Julian L. Simon will yield many articles discussing his theories and related ones.
Combining terms is another option for finding articles. You can combine terms such as those below on different lines of the search.
| Key word | With key word: |
| Population | economic aspects, econometric models, environmental aspects |
| Demographic transition | none |
| Population forecasting | none |
| Population policy | demographic change |
| Fertility, Human | none |
An online database called Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers controversial issues, and has content from magazines, newspapers, journals, and from books such as those in the Opposing Viewpoints Series, the Current Controversies Series and others. It is an excellent place to look for views on population growth. Try typing "Overpopulation" in the search space. Look at the "Viewpoints" in the results to find opinions.
The Gale databases Academic OneFile and General OneFile also have many pertinent articles on population. There's more than one way to approach finding them. All methods will require you to do some sifting through the resulting list of citations to find the ones relevant to your position on population growth. Note: When you see the full text or PDF icons in the link beneath the article citation in the database, you can view, print, download, or e-mail the article.
There's no certain rule for finding books or articles with evidence on a particular side of a debate. You must look at the titles and descriptions of books or abstracts of articles to determine the nature of the content.
You can use the Cited by feature of the library search to try to find articles with related content.
Some combinations or headings tend to return a particular side of the population question:
Population growth is a problem: Population - environmental aspects
Population growth is not a problem: Demographic transition