Databases for Environmental Science
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Biological Abstracts |
Bibliographic citations with abstracts derived from over 5,000 life sciences research journals published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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| Environment Complete |
Contains citations from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. |
1940s-present |
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| GreenFILE |
Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports. |
1970s-present |
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Also Useful
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Applied Science and Technology Full Text |
Provides indexing to over 600 International English-language science and technology magazines and journals. Over 115 journals in full text. |
Indexing: 1983-present | Full text: 1997-present |
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| BioOne |
Provides access to more than 150 scholarly journals from more than 110 publishers. |
2000-present |
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| EnviroFacts |
The Envirofacts Multisystem Query integrates information from a variety of databases and includes latitude and longitude information. |
2007-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| ScienceDirect |
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection (indexing for 1,300 more). |
1960s-present |
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| SpringerLink |
Provides full text access to more than 500 peer reviewed journals and over 2,000 books online. |
1990s-present |
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| Web of Science (ISI) |
Provides indexing for over 12,000 academic journals, proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions, from three databases: |
1898-present |
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| Zoological Record |
Bibliographic citations with abstracts derived from over 5,000 serials published in over 100 countries; monographs (including reports); books; newsletters; conference papers and abstracts. |
1864-present |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change |
Contributors are scholars and specialists including geographers, political scientists, chemists, anthropologists, medical practitioners, development experts, and sociologists. |
2008-present |
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