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Environmental Science Databases

Agricultural Sciences
Agriculture, Biotechnological Techniques as applied to the environment, and Plant Science. Citations, 1970-present.

Aquatic Sciences
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries, Ecology, Oceanography, and Water Resources. Citations/Abstracts, 1978-present.

Ellis & Messina Catalogues
Authority on the names of genera and species of two main groups of fossilizing micro-organisms, Foraminifera and Ostracoda.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Air, Land, Water, and Noise Pollution as well as Bacteriology, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, Environmental Engineering and more. Citations/Abstracts, 1981-present.

GEOBASE
International literature in Cartography, Climatology, Energy, Environment, Geochemistry, Geomorphology, Geophysics, Hydrology, Meteorology, Paleontology, Photogrammetry, Sedimentology, and Volcanology. Citations/Abstracts, 1980-present.

GeoRef
Geoscience literature covering Crystallography, Economic, Environmental and Engineering Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Marine Geology, Mineralogy, Oceanography and Paleontology. Citations/Abstracts, 1785-present.

Human Population & Natural Resource Management
Human Interactions with the Environment, including Population Growth and Development, Demographics, Population Policy, Sustainable Living and Consumption, Ecotourism, Environmental Education, Environmental Policy and Law. Citations/Abstracts, 1995-present.

Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanography focusing on Marine and Brackish-Water Environments. Citations/Abstracts, 1982-present.

Oxford Reference in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Access to dictionaries of Earth Science, Ecology, Geography, and Weather, and The Oxford Companion to the Earth.

Plant Science
All aspects of Plant Science, including Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Genetics, Pathology, Symbiosis, Techniques and Environmental Biology. Citations/Abstracts, 1994-present.

Water Resources Abstracts
Characteristics, Conservation, Control, Pollution, Treatment, Use and Management of Water Resources. Citations/Abstracts, 1967-present.

 

Databases in Related Disciplines

Please see the Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Geography, Geology, Political Science and Sociology pages for more databases in these disciplines.

Anthropological Index Online
Anthropology, Human and Cultural Geography, and Area Studies. Index to periodicals in The Anthropology Library at the British Museum. Citations, 1950s-present.

Biological & Medical Sciences
Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Zoology, Ecology, Agriculture, and Veterinary Science. Citations/Abstracts, 1982-present.

BioOne
Over 50 biology journals published primarily by scholarly societies and associations. Full-text/Citations/Abstracts, 2000-present.

GeoBib
Searchable bibliography of materials added to the collection of the American Geographical Society Library, 1985-present.

EconLit
Index of dissertations and articles in over 600 journals in Economics. Citations, 1969-present.

JSTOR
A variety of disciplines, including access to the Ecology and Botany Collection covering Botany, Plant Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Full-Text, coverage varies with most Vol. 1 thru 5 years ago.

Nature Journals
Access to 18 journals in Biology, including Nature. Full-Text, dates vary by journal.

Social Sciences Abstracts
Social sciences, education, and humanities, including anthropology, economics, geography, human ecology, international relations, minority studies, sociology, and urban studies. Citations/Abstracts, 1991-present.

Zoological Record
Animal Science research including Conservation and Environmental Science, Evolution, Genetics, Reproduction, Systematics, Taxonomy, Veterinary Medicine and Zoology. Citations/Abstracts, 1997-present.

 

Other Science Databases

Annual Reviews
Annual reviews in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences. Full-text, 1996-present; Tables of Contents, 1984-1995.

Cambridge Journals Online
Electronic journals published by Cambridge University Press in Agriculture, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Computer Science, Earth Science, Ecology, History Of Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Physical Science, and Plant Science. Full-text, 1997-present.

ClasePeriodica
Index to over 2600 periodicals published in Central and South America or the Caribbean. Citations, 1978-present.

E-Print Network
Pre-publication research reports and manuscripts in the sciences.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computers, Earth Science, Environmental Issues, Geography, Health, Mathematics, Physics, Science and Technology, Sports and Fitness and Zoology and Wildlife Conservation. Some Full-text/Citations/Abstracts, 1980-present.

General Science Full Text
Physical, Life, and Health Sciences. Full-text, 1990s-present; Citations/Abstracts, 1984-present.

GrayLIT Network
Access to thousands of full-text technical reports generated from federally funded research and development projects.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Access to dictionaries of astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, ecology, mathematics, medicine, nursing, plant science, scientists, physics, statistics, weather, weights and measures, and zoology.

Oxford University Press Journals
Journals published by Oxford University Press in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology and Ecology, Computing and Engineering, Genetics, Health Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, and Medicine. Full-text, dates vary by journal.

 

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