Subject: Environmental Science
Finding Articles
Key Databases:
Environmental sciences and pollution management
A multidisciplinary database, this resource provides comprehensive coverage for all aspects of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 international sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Coverage: 1967-present
GEOBASE
Worldwide coverage of journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports relating to geography, geology, and ecology. Coverage: 1980-present
GeoRef
The premier database for the geological sciences. Provides indexing to more than 3500 journals as well as books, maps and reports. References all USGS publications and indexes US and Canadian dissertations and theses in the geosciences. Coverage:1693 - present (North America coverage)
1933 - present (Worldwide coverage)
Related Databases:
Academic Search Premier
This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,600 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Searchable cited references are also included for more than 1,000 titles. Coverage: 1975-present
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
A major index to the literature of marine and freshwater environments. Coverage: 1971-present
BIOSIS previews
The electronic equivalent of Biological Abstracts, the key resource for locating journal articles in the biological sciences. Indexing is included for nearly 6,000 journal titles with coverage dating back to 1969.
Current Contents Connect
As the title suggests, this resource provides some of the most current indexing available for journal articles. In addition to a searchable index, table of contents are provided for journals in the areas of Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences (ABES), and the Life Sciences (LS). Updated daily.
Coverage: 1998-present
Ecology abstracts
More than 550 journals are indexed for articles relating to ecosystems management, climate impacts, water resources, pollution, etc. Relevant conference proceedings and some book titles are indexed as well. Coverage:1982-present
Environmental sciences and pollution management
A multidisciplinary database, this resource provides comprehensive coverage for all aspects of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 international sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Coverage: 1967-present
General science fulltext
Indexes approximately 280 journals with items of general interest to science students and the public. Includes Discover, Impact of Science on Society, Issues in Science & Technology, New Scientist, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Science Digest, Science News, etc. Coverage: 1984-present
GEOBASE
Worldwide coverage of journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports relating to geography, geology, and ecology. Coverage: 1980-present
GeoRef
The premier database for the geological sciences. Provides indexing to more than 3500 journals as well as books, maps and reports. References all USGS publications and indexes US and Canadian dissertations and theses in the geosciences. Coverage:1693 - present (North America coverage)
1933 - present (Worldwide coverage)
Medline
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this database is considered the primary resource for medical-related research. Coverage:1965-present
Oceanic Abstracts
Emphasizes technical literature on marine and brackish-water environments. Coverage: 1981-present
Pollution Abstracts
Indexes more than 1000 journals for pollution related information. Major areas of coverage include air, marine, and freshwater pollution as well as land pollution, wastewater treatment, waste management, toxicology, noise, radiation, and environmental action. Coverage: 1981-present
SciFinder Scholar
Provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. Indexing to journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information. Coverage: 1907-present
Scirus
This science-specific web engine searches more than 300 million scientific web sites giving access to a wide variety of scientific literature. Includes access to selected peer-reviewed articles, preprints, and digital archives. A unique feature of this resource is the ability to use the advanced search mode to limit a search to scientist’s web sites.
Toxicology Abstracts
Indexing to more than 300 journals for information relating to food additives, agro-chemicals, industrial chemicals, metals, polycyclic hydrocarbons, and radioactive materials. Relevant legislation and standards are also covered. Coverage: 1981-present
TOXLINE
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this resource indexes core journals in toxicology including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Coverage: latest 5 years
Water Resources Abstracts
A complement to the ASFA database, this resource indexes journals, books, government documents, conference proceedings, and technical reports that concentrate on water supply and treatment.
Coverage: 1967-present
Web of Science
Includes Science Citation Index, one of the most comprehensive databases for locating scientific literature. Links to full-text articles when available through USF subscriptions. Updated weekly.
E-journal collections:
AMS Journals Online
Full-text, searchable access to the journals of the American Meteorological Society.
Annual Reviews
Searchable full-text access to the entire content of 33 Annual Review titles including Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics; Environment and Resources; and Earth and Planetary Sciences.
BioOne
This resource provides a single, searchable collection of high impact scientific journals published mostly by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Focus is on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Blackwell Synergy
Searchable access to the journals from Blackwell Publishing.
Cambridge Journals Online
Searchable access to the journals from Cambridge University Press.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals. More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.
GeoScienceWorld
Full-text access to 31 journals published by geosciences societies including the American Geological Institute (AGI) and the Geological Society of America (GSA).
HighWire Press
A partnership between Stanford University Libraries and influential scholarly societies, university presses, and publishers, HighWire provides searchable, full-text access to a large number of the 200 most frequently cited journals.
Journals@Ovid
Searchable, full-text access to a wide variety of scientific, technical, and medial journals.
JSTOR
This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. Biology, general science, and ecology are two areas of concentration within this resource. Some titles date as far back as the 17th and 18th centuries.
Nature Publishing Group
Searchable, full-text access to the journals published by Nature Publishing Group including, Nature, and the Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology.
OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online
A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.
Oxford Journals
Searchable access to the journals from Oxford University Press.
ScienceDirect
A searchable collection of more than 1,000 Elsevier science journals. Also provides access to articles that are in press but not yet published in the print version.
SpringerLink
Searchable access to the journals from Springer.
Wiley Interscience
Searchable access to the journals from John Wiley & Sons.
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