Environmental Sciences

Best Database Choices for Environmental Sciences

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All Environmental Sciences Databases

AGRICOLA    1970-present

Citations to journal articles, books, proceedings, reports, and websites in the primary areas of agriculture and the life sciences.

Biological Abstracts   1985-present

One of the premier life science databases that provides international coverage in areas such as genetics, botany, ecology, biomedicine, zoology, microbiology, and biochemistry.

BioOne   1985-present

BioOne provides full-text access to over 70 journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Birds of North America Online

Information on bird species that nest in the U.S. and Canada, including image and video galleries and recordings of bird songs.

CAB Direct   1973-present

Searches peer-reviewed journals, academic books, technical reports, bulletins, and conference proceedings in the life sciences: agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. The database is international with literature from over 125 countries and dozens of originating languages.

CSA   1973-present

An interdisciplinary resource that includes many databases related to the environmental sciences, such as Ecology Abstracts, Plant Science, Aqualine, Toxline, GeoRef, Oceanic Abstracts, and Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts.

Digital Dissertations    1861-present

Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.

ECOLEX--A Gateway to Environmental Law   

Information service on environmental law, which combines the environmental law information holdings of FAO, IUCN and UNEP.The ECOLEX database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided.

ENVIROnetBASE   

Handbooks and other reference books from CRC Press dealing with all areas of the environment.

EPA Publications Search

Search by keyword or document number to find Environmental Protection Agency documents online.

GEOBASE    1980-present

International information from 5000 journals. Books, theses, maps, reports in geography, geology, ecology. Includes book reviews.

GeoRef   1693-present

Search for all types of publications on the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. This search also includes international publications from GeoRef in Process.

InfoTrac OneFile    1980-present

Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.

National Library for the Environment  

A gateway to a wide array of environmental information – Congressional Research Service reports, news, educational resources, and more.

ScienceDirect

Full text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.

Web of Knowledege / Web of Science   1981-present

Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.

World Biodiversity Database

Taxonomic database and information system that allows you to search and browse a number of online species banks covering a wide variety of organisms.

Zoological Record   2006-present

Find citations to articles, conference proceedings, books, etc. on all aspects of zoology including biochemistry, behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, taxonomy, and more.