Environmental Studies Subject Guide
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Indexes
General
Wilson Web OmniFile
A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Subject
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E-Sources
Journals
AAPG Datapages Datapages provides access to publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation (AAPG). Access the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Gulf Coast Group (USA), Journal of Petroleum Geology, to name a few. Browse AAPG books, and browse AAPG Explorer. This online subscription is provided to the students and faculty of Austin College through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Robert J. and Elizabeth Lee Dean Ardell (1974).
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science journals to one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature.
Full-text access is only to those marked as subscribed. Full text is provided in Adobe Acrobat format for most articles.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including 29 botany and ecology journals. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including including environmental sciences and related disciplines. (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Wiley Journals covering the Earth and Environmental Science in full-text.
Reference
Encyclopedia of Global Change
Encompassing tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt, the 300 authoritative articles in this unique and wide-ranging encyclopedia investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth. The entries cover a range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biographies, and case studies.
Books
netLibrary collection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.
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About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
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Environmental policy
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Human ecology
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Natural resources
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Pollution
Internet Sites
General Guides and Indexes
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Electronic Environmental Resources Library (eERL) is a multi-faceted clearing house of valuable electronic resources on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) resources tied to environmental science. Some areas included: air quality, emergency preparedness and response, energy, natural resources management, safety and health, and sustainability.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Under the section, Global Issues, can be found subsections on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and the World Food Situation.
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National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs have been published since 1877, and are "brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work". They provide "a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.
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Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results
Energy, Resources, and Sustainability Sites
Nature and Conservation Sites
Federal Agencies
About the Program
Citing Sources
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QH304.M36 2001 Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences, 3rd edition
Select from a variety of Style Manuals, especially the following book on Reserve:
