Research Guide for Environmental Studies

FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES | ELECTRONIC JOURNALS | FIND BOOKS | REFERENCE SOURCES | INTERNET RESOURCES |

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These databases will help you locate information published in journals, magazines, newspapers and a variety of other sources. General Science Abstracts Indexes 150 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and much more.Coverage is from 1984 to the present. Updated monthly. Biological and Agricultural Index Nearly 250 English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects, published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Includes book reviews. July 1983 to the present. Updated monthly. BasicBIOSIS Includes over 350,000 records from 350 of the core life science journals most easily found in college and university libraries. Covers the most recent 5 years. Web of Science Web of Science (also known as Science Citation Index) provides keyword and citation searching of scholarly journals in the sciences from 1986 to the present. BioOne Abstracts and Index Indexes only the journals included in the BioOne electronic journal collection. Provides links to full text articles in that collection. Expanded Academic Index Full-Text EAI indexes approximately 3,400 journals and magazines and the New York Times. Full text online is provided for approximately 2,000 of the journals/magazines. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe is a system of databases providing indexing and full text for a large number of U. S. and international newspapers, television and radio news transcripts, U. S. court reports and magazines. Article1st Article1st indexes approximately 12,500 journals and magazines, across all subject areas. This database indicates which journal and magazine articles are available in the Albion College Library. WilsonSelectPlus WilsonSelectPlus contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. The dates of coverage begin January 1994 and continue to the present (please note that each periodical can begin on a different month and year).

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Albion College Library - Electronic Journals Home Page Provides links to more than 1,100 electronic journals available through the Albion College Library. BioOne This service provides access to the full text of nearly 50 bioscience research journals from a number of small societies and non-commercial publishers. These journals are focused primarily on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Albion College Library - Full Text Finder This resource provides links to full text articles found in the Albion College Library's many online databases and electronic journal collections. Covers more than 10,000 journals and magazines. Electronic Collections Online Electronic Collections Online provides indexing and full-text from academic journals in the life sciences and many other disciplines. Articles can be viewed online or printed. JSTOR Provides indexing and full-text from scholarly journals in the many disciplines, including Botany, Ecology, and General Science. Unique, in that coverage for each journal begins with the first volume.

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Albion College Library Online Catalog The Online Catalog will help you find books, videos, government documents, journals, newspapers, and other materials owned by the Albion College Library. MeLCat Online Catalog MeLCat will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, Albion Public Library, East Lansing Public Library, Grand Rapids Community College, Southfield Public Library, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form. WorldCat Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by thousands of libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

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The environment A to Z. REFERENCE COLLECTION - GE 10 .H67 2001 Environmental disasters : a chronicle of individual, industrial, and governmental carelessness. REFERENCE COLLECTION - GE 140 .D383 1998 The Facts on File dictionary of ecology and the environment. REFERENCE COLLECTION - QH 540.4 .F35 2004 Global environment outlook. REFERENCE COLLECTION - GE 170 .G563 Great events from history II. Ecology and the environment series. REFERENCE COLLECTION - GE 150 .G72 1995 The natural environment : an annotated bibliography on attitudes and values. REFERENCE COLLECTION - QH 75 .A55 1984 North America's environment : a thirty-year state of the environment and policy retrospective. REFERENCE COLLECTION - GE 160.N7 N67 2002 World atlas of biodiversity : earth's living resources in the 21st century. REFERENCE COLLECTION - QH 541.15.B56 G762 2002 World resources : a report by the World Resources Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. REFERENCE COLLECTION - HC 10 .W827

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Academic Info: Environmental Studies An excellent starting point for research and information gathering. A large collection of links to quality resources. ECOLEX - A Gateway to Environmental Law "ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law. This unique resource, which combines the environmental law information holdings of FAO, IUCN and UNEP , seeks to put this information at the disposal of users world-wide, in an easily accessible service, employing modern technology. The ECOLEX database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided." EPA - Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment EPA - ECHO Database: Enforcement and Compliance History Online "ECHO provides integrated compliance and enforcement information for approximately 800,000 regulated facilities nationwide. The site allows users to find inspection, violation, enforcement action, and penalty information about facilities for the past two years. Facilities regulated under the following environmental statutes are included: Clean Air Act (CAA) Stationary Source Program, Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Elimination Discharge System (NPDES), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)." GEO Data Portal "the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 400 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP." On-line Data and Reports on Acid Rain, Atmospheric Deposition and Precipitation Chemistry Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World From National Geographic and the World Wildlife Organization, this site provides information on 867 land-based ecoregions around the world.