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The Research Guides have been developed by librarians to serve as starting points in helping students select appropriate resources for research projects.

Evaluating Sources

How to Evaluate Information Sources

Citing Sources

General Citation Guides
APA Style
ASA Style
MLA Style
Chicago Manual of Style
Turabian
Turabian Citation Guide
Provided by Ohio State University Libraries


CSE Style
American Anthropological Association Style
Citing Specific Databases

Tutorials
Google Guide
"An online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between."


Reading Scientific Papers, Flash Tutorial
Provided by Purdue University


Study Skills - How to Study
A free study skills resource site provided by Mangrum-Strichart Learning Resources


Library Research Tools
Databases A - Z
Online Databases available to Albion College faculty, students and staff. To access databases from off-campus, see Access to Electronic Resources from Off-Campus


EndNote FAQ
Addresses common questions regarding the use of EndNote


Find books, videos, and other materials


Find Journal Articles


Find Newspapers


Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."


Recent Acquisitions of the Albion College Library
Recent acquisitions listed by subject. Users can subscribe to RSS feeds to stay updated.


Library Services
Archives Reference Request


Checking Out Library Materials and More FAQ
Circulation Services encompasses the circulation of library materials, wireless laptops, stack management, course reserves, audio-visual services, student employment, and classroom reservation


Government Documents Information


Information for Faculty


Interlibrary Loan Information


Need Research Help?


Software Installation CDs
List of available software includes Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and Publisher), GroupWise and Microsoft XP (for faculty/staff checkout only)


Special Collections (Rare Books and Archives) Information


Environmental Studies Research Guide

For research assistance, contact

Mike VanHouten
or Cheryl Blackwell
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Find Books & Videos
Albion College Library Online Catalog
The Albion College Library Online Catalog - your one-stop spot to search for books, periodicals, government documents, videos, electronic materials and more!
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, 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.
Find Journal Articles & More
Albion College Library - Electronic Journals Home Page
Provides links to more than 2,000 electronic journals available through the Albion College Library.
Article1st (FirstSearch)
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.
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.
BioOne
Full-text articles of high-impact bioscience research journals.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
Indexes only the journals included in the BioOne electronic journal collection. Provides links to full text articles in that collection.
Electronic Collections Online
Electronic Collections Online provides indexing and full-text from academic journals in many disciplines. Articles can be viewed online or printed.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Balanced coverage is available through 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, etc.
Full Text Finder
Many journals, magazines, and newspapers are available in full text through online databases. To search for availability of full text articles from a particular source, look for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper by following the appropriate links.
General Science Abstracts
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.
GreenFILE
"GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well."
JSTOR
Provides indexing and full-text from scholarly journals in many disciplines. Unique, in that coverage for each journal begins with the first volume.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
"Provides customers access to 5 billion searchable documents from more than 32,000 legal, news and business sources."
Online Databases - Complete List
A comprehensive list of all online databases.
Science Citation Index & Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
Web of Science provides keyword and citation searching of scholarly journals in the sciences & social sciences from 1986 to present.
WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
WilsonSelectPlus Full Text contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
Online Journals
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
2009 to present
Online Resources
Academic Info: Environmental Studies
An excellent starting point for research and information gathering. A large collection of links to quality resources.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
"ATSDR is directed by congressional mandate to perform specific functions concerning the effect on public health of hazardous substances in the environment. These functions include public health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries, response to emergency releases of hazardous substances, applied research in support of public health assessments, information development and dissemination, and education and training concerning hazardous substances."
BUBL LINK
Catalogue of Internet Resources using the Dewey Decimal System as the primary organisation structure.. Selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive
"This project make[s] accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI. Participants include Upton Sinclair, Milton Friedman, Mortimer Adler, Cesar Chavez, and Aldous Huxley. From the Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara."
ECOLEX - A Gateway to Environmental Law
"ECOLEX is a database providing the most comprehensive, global source of information on environmental law."
Environmental Literacy Council
Offers a virtual library for environmental educators, students, and the general public interested in cross-disciplinary environmental resources.
EPA - Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
"Brownfields are real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant."
EPA - ECHO Database: Enforcement and Compliance History Online
Use ECHO to determine whether: * Compliance inspections have been conducted by EPA or State/local governments * Violations were detected * Enforcement actions were taken and penalties were assessed in response to environmental law violations
GEO Data Portal
"Its online database holds more than 450 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. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats."
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
"INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information." Provided by University of California Riverside
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.
Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) http://0-
The most extensive public collection of turfgrass material in existence.
Print Resources
Natural environment : an annotated bibliography on attitudes and values
STOCKWELL 110 - QH75 .A55
Reference Sources
Environment A to Z
REFERENCE COLLECTION GE10 .H67
Environmental disasters : a chronicle of individual, industrial, and governmental carelessness
REFERENCE COLLECTION GE140 .D383
Facts on File dictionary of ecology and the environment
REFERENCE COLLECTION QH540.4 .F35
Global environment outlook
REFERENCE COLLECTION GE170 .G563
Great events from history II. Ecology and the environment series
REFERENCE COLLECTION GE150 .G72
North America's environment : a thirty-year state of the environment and policy retrospective
GE160.N7 N67 (E-Book and in Reference Collection)
World atlas of biodiversity : earth's living resources in the 21st century
REFERENCE COLLECTION QH541.15.B56 G762
World resources : a report by the World Resources Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development
Online and in Reference: HC10 .W827

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