Research
Subject Guide: Environmental Studies
The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.
Databases & Indexes
Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles. Here are a few that have information pertinent to Environmental topics.
- AGRICOLA
- Biological Abstracts
- Compendex an engineering database
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- Environment Complete
- General Science Abstracts
- GeoRef
- INSPEC and INSPEC Archive cover the physical sciences.
- SocIndex
- Web of Knowledge (the citation indices)
Reference Books
Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts. Here are some samples to give you an idea of call number areas of the collection that might be useful.
- Beacham's guide to the endangered species of North America
- Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change GE10 E536 2001
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues GE10 E52 2000 v.1-3
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Science GE10 M66 2000
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Studies TD9 .A84 2001
- Encyclopedia of Global Change GE149 E47 2002 v.1-2
- Environmental Performance Measurement HD75.6 .E575 2002
- The Wellbeing of Nations GE140 P74 2001
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Environmental Pollution and Cleanup TD173 .W55 1999 v.1-2
Web Resources
Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:
- AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment
- AgEcon Search provides full-text access to sources in Agricultural Economics, a part of AgNIC
- AIRData - Air Pollution data from the EPA
- American Rivers
- ARKive - images of life on Earth - contains a database of images of endangered and extinct species
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
- Constructed Wetlands Bibliography - from the USDA
- Earth Island Institute
- EarthTrends: The environmental information portal - from the World Resources Institute
- Envirolink
- Environmental Organization Web Directory
- Environmental Protection Agency
- EPA Sector Notebooks
- Forest Conservation Portal
- Global Climate Change Student Guide
Online Journals
Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:
- Landscape Ecology Current (1997-2003) or Landscape Ecology Archives (1987-1997)
- Northeastern Naturalist (2000-Current)
- Public Library of Science - Biology new, open-access, biology journal
- PubMed Central digital archive of many life science journals. See the full list for years covered and restrictions.
- Scientific American Arichive (1993-Current)
- Southeastern Naturalist (2002-Current)
- To determine whether we have a journal available online, please search the CONSORT catalog or use the Electronic Journal Finder.