Geography and Environment Databases

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

ScienceDirect* Elsevier 1997-
Access to the Elsevier Science journal collection which consists of over 15,000 journals including approximate 735 titles in full-text. Subjects include Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
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Scopus is an abstracting database that covers the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences. Scopus provides access to over 26 million abstracts (going back to 1966) and 10 years of reference back files.

Wiley Interscience Journals*
Access to scholarly journal literature in the fields of Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.

Social Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.

Annual Reviews 1996-
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with overviews of current topics in the field. See the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

SciFinder Scholar 1907-
SciFinder Scholar provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, the CAS Registry, Chemcat, Chemlist, and Medline. It includes citations to journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.

CEDB (Civil Engineering Database)
Provides bibliographic access to all American Society of Civil Engineering publications published since 1970 including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.

GreenFile EBSCOhost years vary-
A multi-disciplinary database focusing on aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles on the environmental connections to agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Great for researching global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

National Library for the Environment
Information Services addresses topics such as agriculture & grazing, air, biodiversity & ecology, energy, forestry, global climate change, mining, ocean and coastal resources, population, public lands, stratospheric ozone, waste management, water quality, wetlands, and others.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

CQ Global Researcher* CQ Press 2007-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance at the international level. Topics range from social issues such as environment, health, education and science and technology. Just like the original CQ Researcher, each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

CQ Researcher* CQ Press 1923-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

Expanded Academic ASAP* 1980-
Indexes scholarly and general periodical titles.

Films on Demand Films Media Group
Contains thousands of streaming documentaries in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)* EBSCOhost 1982-
This general database includes articles that cover a wide range of topics in education, general science, humanities, and the social sciences. Formerly known as WilsonWeb, OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition contains the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.

Oxford Reference Online
A multidisciplinary online reference collection containing dictionary and subject reference works. Titles include Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Oxford Companion to the Earth, Dictionary of Ecology, Dictionary of Environment and Conservation, Dictionary of Geography and Dictionary of Weather. The entire collection is fully-indexed and cross-searchable.

SpringerLink 1997-
Access to the complete contents of more than 500 journals and 17,000 e-books, covering a wide array of subjects, including science, technology, medicine, humanities, and economics.