Research Guide: Environmental Studies

Environmental Databases

Environment Abstracts
Environmental studies, pollution, waste management, energy, land use, and environmental design. Resources from 1975 to present. (more info)
Environment Complete
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in a wide range of environmental applications. (more info)
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Covers environmental issues and policies from more than 700 journals and other sources. (more info)
GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, government documents and reports. Focuses on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. (more info)
GEOBASE
An index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. (more info)
GeoRef
The most comprehensive database of bibliographic information in the geosciences. (more info)

Environment-Related Databases

JSTOR
Full text of scholarly journals, from earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. (more info)
Science Citation Index
A part of the Web of Science, the SCI searches the references (citations) found in journal articles in the sciences. (more info)

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. (more info)
Academic Search Premier
Indexes and abstracts more than 8,300 journals; almost 4,700 of these titles are in full text. (more info)

Annual Reviews

Environment and Resources
Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies.
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online access is back to 1973.

Environmental Studies websites

Climate Change
The history of climate change research, from the book "The discovery of global warming", by science historian Spencer Weart (director, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics). The research is presented in more detail here, in a series of essays connected by hypertext links.
Country Analysis Briefs (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
The site provides data on global and local energy use and outlooks. Visitors can access Country Analysis Briefs by selecting from the nine initial clickable regions on the main visual map and then choosing from 85 subregions. Online reports for each region/country include sections on background and profile, types of energy, lists of data sources, and links to relevant sites. The Special Topics section provides fact sheets and pertinent reports such as "Global Energy Sanctions" and "World Oil Transit Chokepoints".
EarthTrends
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Environment & Energy Publications
Access to E & E Publishing's 3 newsletters: ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY DAILY, for tracking environmental and energy action in Congress; GREENWIRE, for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy; and LAND LETTER, the Natural Resources Weekly Report. Through its University Affiliate Program, the National Council for Science and the Environment, NCSE, provides this access and other services to enhance environmental education, research, and outreach activities of over one hundred member institutions.
Environmental History Bibliography
The Bibliography contains over 40,000 annotated citations to books, articles, and dissertations published from 1633 to the present and is updated online quarterly. Approximately 1500 citations are added each year. Items are selected because they provide a historical perspective on a wide range of topics, from Atmospheric Sciences, to Nature in Art and Literature, to Wildlife conservation & biodiversity.
National Council for Science and the Environment: CRS Reports
The National Library for the Environment currently posts over 1700 CRS Reports on environmental and related topics. The Congressional Research Service (CRS), part of the Library of Congress, prepares its reports for the U.S. Congress.
Yale Environment 360
e360 is an online magazine published by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Its purpose is publish "opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environment issues." Content is provided by scientists, academics, journalists, environmentalists, and policy makers.

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