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Databases by Subject - Environment

See also Civil & Environmental Engineering, Energy and Biology & Biotechnology.

advanced | off campus | For databases searched, see below

Database Title	In Quick Find	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...†
Academic OneFile		Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
BioOne		Aggregation of full-text bioscience journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Titles Included | Search Tips	Varies	Y
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier		Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included | Other Sources | Tutorial	1922-	Y
EBSCOhost GreenFILE		Contains abstracts of articles on all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.	Varies	N
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society		Contains 1200 entries written by experts on a range of environmental topics from agroecosystems to zero population growth.	2007	Y
Encyclopedia of Water Science		Covers water issues encountered in agriculture and env2ironmental science. Coverse a wide spectrum of design concepts, methodologies, and solutions for enhanced performance of water quality, treatment, conservation, and irrigation methods.	Current	Y
ENVIROnetbase		More than 300 full text environmental handbooks on such topics on Water Science, Technology, and Engineering, GIS, environmental chemistry, ecology, and earth science. How it Works	Current	Y
Google Scholar		Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press		From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included | Search Tips	Varies	Y
JSTOR		Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included | Search Tips	1800s-	Y
Knovel		Collection of 900+ science and engineering handbooks. Titles Included | Search Tips	Current	Y
Oxford Journals Online		Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas.	1995-	Y
PAIS International		Contains references to articles on public affair and government issues from journals, books, government documents and statistical directories. Titles Included | Search Tips	1915-	N
ScienceDirect		Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips | Tutorial	Varies	Y
SciFinder Scholar		Electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, indexing the literature of chemistry. Search Tips	1907-	Y
SpringerLink		Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science		Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial | Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N
Wiley Interscience		Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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