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Sustainable Development – Best Bets

  • Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is included in Newspapers Search
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • Environment Complete Environment Complete is included in Library Search
    Full text journal articles on agriculture, ecology, renewable energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, environmental technology, law, and policy, and more. More info
  • ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is included in Library Search
    Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more. More info
  • Scopus Scopus is included in Library Search with Login
    Replaces Web of Science. An abstract and citation database focused on social, physical, life, and health sciences, with over 94 million records. More info

Sustainable Development – Also Useful

  • ACSESS Digital Library ACSESS Digital Library is included in Library Search
    The ACSESS Digital Library is a complete collection of all content published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. More info
  • Agricola Agricola is not in Library Search
    Includes citations for resources relating to all aspects of agriculture, materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions. More info
  • Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest) Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest) is included in Library Search
    Provides full text access to over 1,100 scholarly journals, trade journals, and reports representing all major environmental science topics. More info
  • Anthropology Plus Anthropology Plus is not in Library Search
    Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. More info
  • Business Source Complete Business Source Complete is included in Newspapers Search
    Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. More info
  • EconLit with Full Text EconLit with Full Text is included in Library Search
    Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers in all fields of economics. More info
  • Engineering Database Engineering Database is included in Library Search
    Provides discipline-specific coverage of engineering, spanning thousands of publications, many in full text. More info
  • Google Scholar Google Scholar is not in Library Search
    Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own. More info
  • GreenFILE GreenFILE is included in Library Search
    Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. More info
  • Lens Lens is not in Library Search
    The Lens ingests, cleans, aggregates, normalizes and serves over 225 million scholarly works, 127 million global patent records, and 370 million patent sequences. More info
  • Library Search
    Search holdings for Appalachian State as well as other UNC system schools, and expand search to include items you can request from libraries worldwide. More info
  • Materials Science Database (ProQuest) Materials Science Database (ProQuest) is included in Library Search
    Articles and records on materials science and related topics, including over 700 full-text journals. More info
  • Nature Journals Nature Journals is included in Library Search
    Connect to Nature, the world's most-cited scientific research journal, as well as news and other journals at Nature.com. More info
  • OSTI.GOV OSTI.GOV is not in Library Search
    Find research results from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). More info
  • PAIS Index PAIS Index is included in Library Search
    Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. More info
  • Political Science Complete Political Science Complete is included in Library Search
    Contains full text articles from over 500 scholarly journals and indexing and abstracts from 2,900 journal titles related to political science, global in scope. More info
  • ProQuest Central ProQuest Central is included in Newspapers Search
    Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers. More info
  • Sage Knowledge Sage Knowledge is included in Library Search
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • Social Science Research Network – SSRN Social Science Research Network – SSRN is not in Library Search
    A world wide collaborative of over 185,000 authors and more than 1.3 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. More info
  • SpringerLink SpringerLink is included in Library Search
    Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines. More info
  • Wiley Online Library Wiley Online Library is included in Library Search
    Provides access to more than 1,000 full text journals primarily in the fields of science, technology, medicine, business, and law. More info
  • WorldCat (FirstSearch) WorldCat (FirstSearch) is not in Library Search
    Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings. More info

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Xiaorong Shao
Xiaorong Shao