Databases
- Multidisciplinary Databases
- Public Policy Databases
- Natural & Physical Science Databases
- Social Science Databases
- Related Subject Links
Multidisciplinary Databases
- A comprehensive database integrating resources in the sciences, public policy, and law.
- Disciplines covered include agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.
- Indexes more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s, as well as more than 100 monographs.
- Provides the full text of over 400 journals and 80 monographs.
- Coverage dates vary by title.
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- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database.
- Covers social sciences, humanities, general science, and education.
- Indexes and abstracts over 8,200 journals, and provides full-text articles for over 4,500 journals.
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GreenFILE (via Academic Search Premier)
- Multi-disciplinary database with full-text and abstracts.
- Covering global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more
- Scholarly articles, government documents and reports and general interest titless
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- Our largest database for business articles.
- Provides the full text of over 8,800 journals (over 1,100 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Coverage runs from 1984 to the present.
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- A large, general database covering a wide range of current events, news, and scholarly articles.
- The database integrates core titles in every major academic concentration, including environmental studies.
- Contains an emphasis on business, law, and technology.
- Covers over 10,000 general periodicals and scholarly journals.
- Coverage from 1980 to the present.
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- Provides full-text of over 450 scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines.
- Disciplines include ecology, biological sciences, and public policy.
- Narrow by discipline and type of article to get fewer results.
- Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago.
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- Covers news, business, legal, and medical research.
- Provides full text articles from over 5,600 domestic and international newspapers, law reviews, magazines, transcripts of radio and television programs, newsletters, and other sources.
- Coverage begins in the early 1990s for most titles.
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Public Policy Databases
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
- Covers foreign policy and international affairs, including global issues and the environment.
- Full text of a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward, including working papers, occasional papers, research project publications, conference proceedings, and some entire books.
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- Analysis of a wide variety of current political and social issues.
- Particularly useful for health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and economics.
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- Provides full-text information published by and about the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Full text from the 1980s onward, with indexing back to 1789.
- Includes hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, public laws, the Federal Register, U.S. Code, statutes at large, and much more.
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- Provides citations and abstracts on global public policy and social issues including concentrations on the environment, agriculture, and economics.
- Coverage from 1915 to 1976.
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- Provides citations and abstracts on global public policy and social issues including concentrations on the environment, agriculture, and economics.
- Indexes periodicals, books, government documents, reports, and internet sites on public affairs, policy, law, political science, government, and social sciences.
- 1972 - present. Abstracts are included since 1985.
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Natural & Physical Science Databases
- Over 3 million records covering every major agricultural subject including ecology, life sciences, forestry, natural resources, water resources and soils.
- Includes periodical articles, books, government publications, patents and more. UNCG Library holds a limited number of the items indexed
- Citations only; no abstracts or full text. 1970 to present
- More info on AGRICOLA via FirstSearch
- More info on AGRICOLA via the National Agricultural Library
Biological Abstracts (Web of Knowledge)
- Provides citations and abstracts from over 4,000 biology and life science journals published worldwide.
- Coverage from 1969 to the present.
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- Provides the full text of over 60 journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
- Coverage from 2000 to the present.
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- An integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions.
- Offers links to web sites for conferences, seminars, books and journal articles from around the world. Also includes data sets, teaching activities, teaching resources, and current issues discussions.
- Many full-text resources are available.
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- A catalog of EPA's scientific and technical work.
- Covers nine EPA topics: Aging Initiative, Children's Health, Contaminated Sediments, Cumulative Risk, Ecological Assessment Tools, Environmental Justice, Genomics, Non-Indigenous Species, and Tribal Science.
- Overview of this database.
- More than a million records with abstracts covering ecology, climatology, geology, geography, and urban planning.
- Includes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, reports and dissertations; international in scope.
- Coverage from1980 to the present.
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Science Citation Index: SCI (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 6,000 peer-reviewed science journals cover-to-cover.
- Guide to when, where, and how often articles have been cited.
- Coverage from 1955 to the present.
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- Full text of hundreds of e-journals covering science, technology, medicine, with some coverage of the humanities and social sciences.
- Useful for earth sciences, the environment, and ecology.
- Coverage varies by title.
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Social Science Databases
- Comprehensively covers all major areas of anthropology - from several hundred periodicals - including cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.
- Human speech, physiology, artifacts, history, environment, and social relations are described, analyzed, interpreted, and compared within the human and animal realms.
- Dates of coverage from 2000 to the present.
- 1970 to 1999 is also in print: Reference Indexes Abstracts area -- GN1 .A15 1.
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Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984.
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews.
- Covers a multitude of disciplines including environmental studies, ethics, policy, psychology, and sociology.
- Continued by Social Sciences Index (Ref. Indexes & Abstracts AI3 .S62 1) and the Humanities Index (Ref. Indexes & Abstracts AI3 .H85 1).
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- Provides citations and abstracts on population, family planning, and related fields.
- Coverage from 1970 to the present.
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- Indexes books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
- Coverage from 1986 to 2000.
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- Abstracts for over 1,300 periodicals, book chapters, and books in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry and sociology.
- Includes a large number of foreign language titles. Jackson library owns many of the core, English-language titles.
- Coverage from 1872 to the present.
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Social Science Citation Index: SSCI (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 2,100 peer-reviewed social science journals cover-to-cover.
- Guide to when, where, and how often articles have been cited.
- Coverage from 1956 to the present.
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- Provides abstracts for over 2,500 journals,conference papers, dissertations, book reviews, and books in all aspects of sociology.
- Includes a large number of foreign language titles.
- Major journals in these fields available in Jackson library.
- Coverage from 1963 to the present.
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Related Subject Links
On this page we have listed the major databases from several fields that are related to Environmental Studies. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of Environmental Studies, you may find that the databases and other resources in related subject areas also are helpful to your research. For example, if you have an anthropological topic, use the Anthropology sources; if you have a biological topic, use the Biology sources. Some relevant subject areas include:
For other subject areas, see the Electronic Databases by Subject page, which provides a database list for each UNCG academic department or program.
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