Research by Subject: Environmental Studies

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Journals/Magazines

ProQuest Social Science Journals Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Full-text periodicals covering the social sciences, including addiction studies, urban studies, family studies, international relations and much more.

Academic Search Premier Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database which Includes a large collection of peer-reviewed journals in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.  Coverage varies, but begins in the 1990s for most journals.

AGRICOLA Unrestricted Resource
Agricola is the catalog for the National Agricultural Library.  The article search can be used to find citations for resources in agricultural literature and allied disciplines, 1970- present.  Includes material relevant to landscape architecture, agricultural economics, animal science, food science, forestry, horticulture, natural resources, plant ecology, and plant pathology. 

Biological abstracts Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Provides abstracts and bibliographic references to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Includes some linked full text.

Columbia Earthscape Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals on all subjects in many languages.

GEOBASE Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Abstracts for worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology and related disciplines published since 1980.  Includes all references published in Geographical Abstracts journals. Indexes more than 5000 journals; as well as books, conference proceedings and reports.

Google Scholar Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. Supports cited reference searching. Includes recent or unpublished work that hasn't been indexed in other databases.

GreenFILE Unrestricted Resource ArticleLinker enabled
An index drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. GreenFILE provides a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Nearly 300,000 records (full text for selected titles) from scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.

HighWire press Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Free access to full-text science, technology and medicine journals, except for the most recent issues (usually six months or a year).

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal (1 or more), keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years. The content is delivered as page images.

Nature Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Access to the weekly journal Nature from 1869 to the present. Nature contains original research, science news, review articles, job postings, and book reviews. Links to several other journals from Nature Publishing Group.

PLoS: Public Library of Science Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Open access journals published by a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians. PLoS journal cover biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, pathogenes, clinical trials, and tropical diseases.

Science Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Science Magazine Online, aka Science Online, the official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Access back to 1997 is available through this site; see JSTOR for older issues.

ScienceDirect Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Full-text scientific, technological, medical journals; subjects covered include biology, biochemistry, business management and accounting, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, environmental science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, nursing, physics, psychology, education, and communication. Includes access to selected full-text reference books. Indexing/Abstracts to additional titles.

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability.

Web Sites

CSRwire.com Unrestricted Resource
The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.

Eldis Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A portal to information on development issues, providing access to wide range of online resources,including documents, organizations, email bulletins and newsfeeds.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Ecology
Call Number: REF QH 540.4 .C65 1998
Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
concise dictionary of ecological terms

Oxford Dictionary of Ecology Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Dictionary of terminology in the environmental sciences

Encyclopedias

Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
Call Number: REF QH 77 .N56 B43 2001
Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Six-volume with detailed articles on endangered plants and animals of North America. Most entries include an illustration and references.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology
Call Number: REF QH 540.4 .E52 1995
Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Three-volume encyclopedia featuring detailed articles on environmental topics. Articles are signed and include bibliographies.

Encyclopedia of Evolution
Call Number: REF QH 360.2 .E54 2002
Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Signed articles by leading researchers on all things related to evolution. Also includes a number of introductory essays on special topics.

The Wiley encyclopedia of energy and the environment
Call Number: TJ163.235 .W55 1997
Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Signed articles with references on topics relating to energy technologies and their ecological consequences.

Government Information

FedStats Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Links to over 100 various agencies which provide statistics, covering areas as wide reaching as crime, demographics, economics, energy, environment, health, and natural resources.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The USGS reexamined the geology of the ANWR 1002 area and has prepared this petroleum resource assessment.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The US EPA provides information on major environmental topics, including laws and regulations.

Global Change Master Directory Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Clearinghouse of US Government earth science data sets

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Unrestricted Resource
Gateway to environmental information for New York State. Includes information on pollution, wildlife, and natural areas.

Science.gov Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Research portal that allows searching across 38 scientific databases from the US government.

Toxnet Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Toxicology data network from the National Library of Medicine. Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

U.S. Geological Survey Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Searchable website of government resources relating to biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water.

Handbooks & Guides

Climate change: A guide to the information and disinformation Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Annotated links to (mostly) online resources, from basic science to government agencies and organizations, to research institutions, and environmental groups. Sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists.

CQ Researcher Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
In-depth, nonpartisan reports of political and social issues on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. economy, etc.  Each report provides original, comprehensive reporting on issues, along with tools to study how issues have changed over time.

Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials
Call Number: REF T 55.3 .H3 L494 2004
Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Three volume handbook of toxicological data of common chemicals

Images

NBII Digital Image Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
The National Biological Information Infrastructure's Digital Image Library includes images related to nature and the environment. Collections contain images associated with plant and animal species, scenic landscapes, environmental issues, wildlife management, and biological study/fieldwork.

Statistics/Data

ACToR Unrestricted Resource
ACToR (Aggregated Computational Toxicology Resource) is a collection of databases from the EPA. More than 200 sources of publicly available data on environmental chemicals have been brought together and made searchable by chemical name and other identifiers, and by chemical structure. Data includes chemical structure, physico-chemical values, in vitro assay data and in vivo toxicology data.

2008 World Population Data Sheet Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Statistical report on world population trends.

UNdata Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
UNdata pools major UN databases and those of several international organizations - browse, search and download data from a large number of statistical databases. Data categories include: agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, trade, and tourism.