Databases Focusing On Environmental Issues
Use these databases to search for articles on your environmental studies/science topic. Click here to access our tutorial on choosing a database.
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Environment CompleteCovers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Coverage: 1975-present. Some Full-Text.
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JSTOR SustainabilityProvides journals, e-books, and research reports on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Research spans the biological sciences, business & economics, ecology, environmental sciences, law, public health, urban studies, and more. Coverage: Historic and current. Full text.
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Green FILEIndexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Includes articles on the connection between the environment and agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Coverage: Varied. Some Full-Text.
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Environmental Studies (Gale in Context)Provides news, overviews, videos, commentaries, primary source documents and statistics related to the interdisciplinary study of sustainability and the environment. Includes research areas such as energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, and economic development. Coverage: Varies. Some full text.
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BioOneFocus on biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Primarily consists of journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Coverage: 1965 to present. Full-Text.
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Coastal Zone Information Collection (CZIC) from NOAAProvides documents (1951-1999) crucial to the understanding of U.S. coastal management and NOAA's mission to sustain healthy coasts. The above link provides a clickable list of documents. To search across the collection, click on "Search Government Publications" and then "Advanced Search" and use the Available Collections pull-down menu to select "Coastal Zone Information Collection".
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Energy Citations DatabaseDeveloped by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to improve access to scientific and technical information (STI). It contains over 2.6 million bibliographic citations for energy and energy related STI. Coverage: Coverage: 1943 - Present . Some Full-Text.
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Green EnergyThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides access to over 30,000 technical reports and over 2,000 patents from R&D projects that pertain to renewable energy resources and energy conservation.
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Wildlife & Ecology Studies WorldwideLiterature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Offers a global perspective and is the most comprehensive resource on wildlife information. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Coverage: 1935-present. Citations Only.
General Science Databases
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General Science EBSCOCovers everything from supernovas to marine pollution. A good starting point for researchers seeking information on a variety of scientific topics. Coverage: 1984-present. Some Full-Text.
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Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)SciELO provides cooperative electronic publishing of science, social sciences, and arts & humanities journals to meet the scholarly communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries. It provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scholarly literature. English, Spanish, and Portuguese search interfaces are available. Full-text will be in the language of the original publication. Coverage: current and back issues of journals. Mostly Full-Text.
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ScienceDirectArticles in the journals published by Elsevier. A collection of articles focusing on science, technology and medicine. Coverage: Varied some 1850 to present. Some Full-Text.
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CAS SciFinder-nFirst time users must register to search SciFinder, which is available to current Dickinson affiliates only. Contact the Chemistry Liaison Librarian for registration information. SciFinder-n includes includes important scientific discoveries and provides organic and inorganic substance information with references from thousands plus patents. Provides step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, and touch-screen enabled structure drawing. Citations Only. SciFinder-n is the new SciFinder interface. The legacy SciFinder platform remains available through December 2021.
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ScopusScopus is a curated abstract & index database that links researchers to scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. As a citation database, Scopus also provides tools for users to discover and analyze the connections between research. Researchers can find related documents by shared references, authors, and keywords; identify subject experts; track citations over time for a set of authors or documents; and assess trends in search results. Coverage: 1788-present.
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Springer Nature ExperimentsFind, evaluate and implement experiments across the life sciences with the new research solution for protocols and methods from Springer Nature. Searches over 50,000 published protocols and methods.
Getting the Articles
If you find an article in a database:
Look for a link to the pdf or HTML version of the article. If there isn't one, click on the "Get It!" button to see if we have access.
Tutorial: How to Use the Get It! Button
Finding a specific article:
If we don't have access to an article in our collection, then you can place an order for it through ILLIAD.
The first time you use ILLIAD, you will need to set up an account.
Once you have an account, just click the "ILLIAD" link in the "Get it!" button and log in. The request form will be automatically populated with the citation information for the article. Just hit "submit" and wait for your article to arrive. Articles often arrive in the same day, but sometimes take a few days. Be sure to plan ahead!
Locating Articles
Basic process for finding articles
If you find an article that looks interesting check to see if there is a link to the pdf or HTML version of the article by the citation. If not, then click the "Get It!" button to see if we have access to it either electronically or in print.
Requesting articles we do not own
If we have neither print nor electronic access to an article in our collection, then you can place an order for it through ILLIAD.
You will have to set up account the first time you order an article but once you have done this once you can use this same account each time you want an article.
Once you have an account set up then you can just click the "ILLIAD" link in the "Get it!" button and log into your account and the request form will be automatically populated with the citation information for your desired article so you only need to submit the request.
(If you do not have a journal citation, but instead have a topic, use one of our databases to locate citations).
Evaluating Sources
It is important to evaluate the credibility of a source before you use it for your research. This evaluating sources guide will help you ask the right questions in order to determine if a source is the best one to use.
The quick reference guide and video below will help you to identify scholarly sources, specifically.
Databases in Other Subject Areas
Articles related to Environmental Studies/Science can be found throughout the library. Depending on your topic, you may wish to search databases from other disciplines, including the ones below. But don't let this list limit you. See our full list of research guides for others.
