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Databases for Sustainable Development

April 8, 2026 • 11:48 am

Sustainable Development – Best Bets

  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • Environment Complete
    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
    Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more. More info
  • Scopus
    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
    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
    Includes citations for recources relating to all aspecs of agriculture, materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions. More info
  • Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)
    Provides full text access to over 1,100 scholarly journals, trade journals, and reports representing all major environmental science topics. More info
  • Anthropology Plus
    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
    Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. More info
  • EconLit with Full Text
    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
    Provides discipline-specific coverage of engineering, spanning thousands of publications, many in full text. More info
  • Google Scholar
    Use Google Scholar through the library to be automatically linked to the full text of articles we own. More info
  • GreenFILE
    Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. More info
  • Lens
    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)
    Articles and records on materials science and related topics, including over 700 full-text journals. More info
  • OSTI.GOV
    Find research results from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). More info
  • PAIS Index
    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
    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
    Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    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
    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
    Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines. More info
  • Wiley Online Library
    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)
    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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