Core Databases | Related Databases | Encyclopedias | Selected Web Pages

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Core Databases

Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Full-text

Agricola
Contains bibliographic records back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
Type: Index with Citations

Environment Complete
Provides full-text coverage in a variety of fields including ecosystem management, environmental policy, natural resources, and renewable energy.
Type: Index with some Full-text

GreenFILE
Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing for articles from scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
Type: Index with Citations

GREENR
Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (GREENR) focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Resources include academic journals, news sources, case studies, legislation, statistics, and multimedia.
Type: Full-text

Related Databases

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Includes country data, case studies, policy briefs and journal articles related to international relations.
Type: Full-text

Gale Power Search
Provides a large collection of current periodical literature including newspapers, magazines and some academic journals.
Type: Full-text

Google Scholar @ Marylhurst
The Google Scholar search is configured to connect to Shoen Library's resources improving the availability of some content.
Type: Web Page

World Development Indicators
The World Bank provides statistical indicators in areas including education, energy, environment, and health for most countries around the world.
Type: Full-text

Encyclopedias

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Covers key figures in science from classical to modern times.
Type: Full-text

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Includes discussion of historical and contemporary environmental issues, polices and debates.
Type: Full-text

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics
Presents articles on areas of controversy in science and technology.
Type: Full-text

Encyclopedia of Sustainability
The work approaches sustainability from an ecological and environmental perspective with emphasis on government and controversies.
Type: Full-text

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Includes articles about thousands of living species with photographs and habitat descriptions.
Type: Full-text

Real-Life Math
Illustrates everyday math concepts with clear examples.
Type: Full-text

Selected Web Pages

arXiv.org
The Cornell University sponsored repository is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
Type: Web Page

Highwire Press Science
The Stanford University sponsored site provides access to the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world.
Type: Web Page

National Library for the Environment
The government sponsored web site offers access to over 1500 reports on environmental issues.
Type: Web Page

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The search engine retrieves information from a network of digital libraries offering in-depth studies in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Type: Web Page

Science.gov
Provides a search gateway to documents hosted and produced by U.S. government agencies.
Type: Web Page

Scirus.com
The search engine offers a science-specific search on the open web.
Type: Web Page

Tree of Life
The collaborative project has the goal of documenting all living and extinct organisms and using the features of the web to interlink related content.
Type: Web Page

World Wide Science
The global science gateway connects visitors to international science portals and resources.
Type: Web Page

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