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Environmental Studies Subject Guide

Top Article Databases
  • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
    Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts.
    Covers: 1971 - present
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  • BIOSIS Previews
    Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. You can search BIOSIS, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Web of Science at the same time. Choose the All Databases tab.
    Covers: 1926 - present
  • CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly Researcher) + Archive
    Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher provides coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published ~weekly (44 times a year).
    Covers: 1923 - present.
  • EENews
    E&E News is composed of four daily publications that track energy, environmental and climate policy. Publications include GreenWire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, E&E DailyPM, LandLetter and reports.
  • EnviroFacts Data Warehouse
    This website provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States. With Envirofacts, you can learn more about these environmental activities in your area or you can generate maps of environmental information.
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
    Database of citations and abstracts of articles and reports on the following topics: agricultural biotechnology, air quality, bacteriology, environmental impact statements, safety science, waste management, toxicology, pollution, and environmental science.
    Covers: 1981 - present
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  • GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)
    An online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. GREENR is a Gale / Cengage Learning product.  
  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
    Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
    Covers: 1900 - present.
Other Article Databases
  • Academic Search Complete from EBSCO
    Database of articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources with full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
    Coverage: 1990 - current
    Academic Search Complete
  • BioOne
    Searchable database of 45 online journals in biological, environmental, and ecological science.
    Covers: 2000-present.
  • Business Source Complete
    Searchable database of articles from scholarly business journals and other sources. Subjects include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
    Covers: 1965 - current, though a few select journals are available from the 1940's and 1950's.
    Business Source Complete
  • CSA Illumina
    Citations and abstracts for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, chapters and essays, dissertations, and more. Must specify subject area to begin search. Formerly known as Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
    Search only Natural Sciences databases from CSA.
  • GeoRef
    Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
    Covers: 1669 - present
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  • LexisNexis Academic (Lexis Nexis Academic)
    News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company information. Federal and states court cases back to 1789.
    Coverage varies
  • Oceanic Abstracts
    Citations and abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment.
    Covers: 1981 - present
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  • ProQuest Congressional (formerly Lexis Nexis Congressional)
    Contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal.
    Covers: 1789 - present
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  • TOXLINE
    Information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.
    1998 - current
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