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Databases: Environmental Studies

 

Alphabetical:

  • Academic Search Premier
    • indexes 4,500+ general and academic journals
    • covers all subjects
    • coverage from 1985+
    • mostly full-text

  • AGRICOLA
    • from the National Agriculture Library
    • all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science
    • provides detailed abstracts
    • over 5,000 sources: books, journals, etc.
    • coverage from 1970+

  • BasicBIOSIS
    • information about biology and other life sciences
    • covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries
    • includes popular and scholarly science journals
    • over 350 sources
    • coverage is the most recent 5 years
    • Quick Reference Card

  • BioDigest
    • life science information written in a non-technical style
    • provides detailed abstracts
    • over 300 sources
    • coverage from 1989+

  • GEOBASE
    • worldwide literature of geography, geology, and ecology
    • covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings and reports
    • over 2,000+ sources
    • mostly citation-only, some full-text
    • coverage from 1980+

  • JSTOR
  • ScienceDirect
    • index to 1800+ scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals
    • 200+ full-text journals
    • provides MEDLINE access
    • coverage varies

  • Scientific American Archive
    • contains entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine
    • coverage from Jan. 1993+
    • full-text

  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including environmental issues
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
Additional:

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    • indexes all doctoral dissertations in the U.S., including evironmental studies
    • coverage from 1861+
    • abstracts
    • order from Interlibrary Loan

  • Environmental resources in digital Reference

  • GPO Monthly Catalog (GPO)
    • index to U.S. Government publications
    • covers all types of documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judicial materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.)
    • coverage from 1976+
    • citation only
    • order from Interlibrary Loan

  • WorldCat
    • most prestigious database of books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by OCLC libraries worldwide
    • over 400 languages represented

 

 

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