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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
BioOneBiological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text coverage of peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences member societies. BioOne Partners
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Ecology & Botany CollectionFull text access to 29 journals in JSTOR's Botany & Plant Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology collections. JSTOR
Environment CompleteOver 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s. Full text for more than 650 journals. EBSCOhost
GEOBASEGeography, earth and environmental sciences, ecology, and related disciplines. Indexes journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. OCLC/Elsevier
GreenFILECovers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Scholarly, government, and popular titles. Subjects include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc. Indexing and abstracts for over 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for over 4,700 records. EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Web of ScienceProvides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded Index (1992 to present) for more than 6,400 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals in over 150 disciplines. Offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references. Includes MEDLINE. Updated weekly. Thomson
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

GE - Environmental Sciences GF - Human Ecology
HB - Economic Theory. Demographics HC - Economic History and Conditions
HD - Industries. Land Use. Labor Q - Science (General)
QH - Natural History - Biology QK - Botany
QL - Zoology S - Agriculture
SF - Animal Culture T - Technology
TH - Building Construction

Reference books

BookCall number
A Dictionary of Biology (online book)A Dictionary of Biology
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (online book)A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
A Dictionary of Ecology (online book) A Dictionary of Ecology
A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and SystematicsREF QH540.4 .L56
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (online book)A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
A Dictionary of Zoology (online book)A Dictionary of Zoology
Encyclopedia of Energy (6 volumes)REF TJ163.28 .E53 2004
International Encyclopedia of Environmental PoliticsREF GE170 .I55 2002
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (20 volumes)REF Q121 .M3 2002
Oxford Companion to the Earth (online book)Oxford Companion to the Earth

Web resources

Bio-Diversity Hotspots
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Florida Center for Environmental Studies
National Council for Science and the Environment
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Scirus
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP)
The Encyclopedia of Earth
The Endangered Species Program