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Annual Review Of Environment And Resources (Info)
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| Description: | Annually-published overview/synthesis of important topics in the study of environmental policy-related issues. Articles from 1996 to date are available online. Additional | |
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| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Politics -- General Latin American and Caribbean Studies | |
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| Description: | An especially valuable form of secondary literature. Articles in the Annual Review series are comprehensive, dependable, and offer sizeable bibliographies; if you can find an article on your topic, it will probably point you to most of the relevant primary literature which had appeared up to its publication date, and give you a firm basis for understanding the evolution of research traditions in that subfield. | |
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| Description: | "Deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more." Contains records from about 1,700 U.S. and international periodicals, some dating back to the 1940's, as well as full-text coverage of more than 650 journals, plus over 100 monographs and reference sources. | |
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Environmental Sciences And Pollution Management (Info)
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| Description: | Multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Updated monthly, with coverage back to 1967. | |
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| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
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| Description: | One of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 19 million articles from 29,500 publications, including 8,000 online. You can search all of these journals or browse specific topics. Provides access to the full text of online articles through online purchase of individual articles or through subscriptions to publications. You will have to use the Periodical Finder to get the full text of articles. | |
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| Description: | Comprehensive list of databases and online indexes for the sciences | |
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| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | Elsevier B.V. | |
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| Description: | Online full text access to our subscriptions to journals published by Elsevier, with an archive starting in 1999. This includes the Trends in . . . journals, Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and many others. The database allows searching on over 1,700 journals from Elsevier Science including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell, and Tetrahedron and over three million articles and over 59 million abstracts from all fields of science. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. Wildcards: Use ! to find a root word plus all the words made by adding letters to the end of it. For http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalListURL&_update=y&_auth=y&_acct=C000053098&md5=7173bf2f1fc8a62c05e6f3ea7a00be2e&subjColl=all&stype=title&type=subscribedexample, a search for behav! would find behave, behaviour, behavioural. Use an asterisk * to replace characters anywhere in a word, except the first character. Use one asterisk for each character you want to replace. For example, a search for wom*n would find woman and women. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | Elsevier | |
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| Description: | Described as the largest citation-and-abstract database in the world, Scopus features broad coverage of scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences literature, as covered in about 14,000 peer-reviewed resources, as well as academic Web sites from the Scirus database. Scopus also functions as a citation-indexing tool. | |
| Usage Tips: | Entries dating from 1996 include complete reference (bibliography) listings, while earlier entries (back to 1966) include only citations and abstracts.
Combining Terms You can search for entries containing two or more terms by combining them with "AND" in the search statement. Example: college AND stress Phrases Search for a multi-word phrase by placing the terms within double quotation-marks. Example: "binge drinking" Wildcards/Truncation The search system will automatically search for singular and plural forms of a term that is entered. Example: cell will find cell and cells. A question-mark (?) will replace a single character in a search term. Example: analys?s will find analysis and analyses. An asterisk (*) can replace any number of characters in a search term. Example: behav* will find behavior, behaviour, behavioral, behaviors, behaviorism, etc. Citation Indexing Note that most entries include a "Cited By" option, which allows you to see publications which have cited the item you are viewing. Full Text Many entries in the database include "View at Publisher" links, intended to lead you to the complete text of articles, etc. on publisher Web site. In many cases, we actually will not have access to these materials. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General Sociology Economics | |
Scopus Citation Tracker (Info)
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| Producer: | Elsevier | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Track how often articles have been cited by other authors. A comparable service to Web of Science's Cited Reference Searching, you can enter an author's name and generate a report of how a particular article has been cited by other authors by year. View the articles, print the Citation Overview, or export the Citation Overview into a CSV file, ready to be converted to an Excel spreadsheet. | |
| Usage Tips: | Start by doing an author search. Select the article you would like to track, then select the Citation Overview button.  A tutorial is available for Scopus Citation Tracker. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Africa And The Middle East: A Continental Overview Of Environmental Issues (Info)
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| Producer: | ABC-Clio | |
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| Description: | Overview of history and issues of environmental issues in Africa and the Middle East. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times To The Present (Info)
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| Producer: | Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library | |
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| Description: | Two-volume set (2008) contains nearly 400 biographical entries on "the men and women who have made a significant contribution to environmental issues over the last 200 years." You may view a copy of the table of contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the entries or by searching for a particular word.
For further help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Asia: A Continental Overview Of Environmental Issues (Info)
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| Producer: | ABC-Clio | |
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| Description: | Overview of history and issues of environmental issues in Asia. (Published in 2003.) | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word.
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies East Asian Studies | |
Birds Of North America Online (Info)
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| Producer: | American Ornithologist's Union | |
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| Description: | The electronic version of Birds of North America. Provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. Each of the "species accounts" contain conservation and management issues, breeding and wintering maps, migration routes and habits, feeding habits, details of life at the nest, information on breeding, life span, mortality, disease. BNA Online also includes recordings of sounds and calls. | |
| Usage Tips: | To cite a species account from BNA Online, see http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/faq.html#eight. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Environmental Studies | |
Companion To Global Environmental History (Info)
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| Producer: | Wiley / Wiley Online Library | |
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| Description: | Divided into four thematic areas, this 2012 collection of nearly 30 essays reviews contemporary scholarship on environmental history. Some entries "emphasize natural and cultural history, while others focus on political and economic developments." You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Wiley Online Library e-book interface, see this guide. | |
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| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Connect to: Dictionary of Ecology
| Producer: | Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online | |
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| Description: | Foruth edition (2010) contains "over 6,000 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric science, and oceanography." | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing among the entries or by searching for a particular word.
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Connect to: Dictionary of Energy
| Producer: | Elsevier / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2009 "expanded edition" contains about 10,000 brief entries "covering some 40 scientific disciplines and topics." Several dozen of the entries are longer, signed articles. | |
| Usage Tips: | You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Dictionary Of Environment And Conservation (Info)
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| Producer: | Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online | |
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| Description: | This 2007 volume by Chris Park contains 8,500 entries on scientific and social aspects of ecology and the environment, with coverage of such areas as: sustainable development; biodiversity; conservation; environmental ethics, philosophy, and history; resource management; sociology; and policy. | |
| Usage Tips: | The initial screen ("Quick Search") is set up for a search of the complete text of the database.
If you want to browse through an alphabetical list of all entries, choose the "Browse this book" option. The results of searches are arranged by relevance, with those articles containing search words in the title or other prominent location. Quick Search To search for various forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) as a wild-card term. Example: pollut* will find pollute, polluter, polluting, pollution, etc. Advanced Search This option, located within the blue bar near the top of the screen, enables you to search through this reference source, plus some or all of the other Oxford Reference Online sources in this same broad subject area ("Earth & Environmental Sciences"). | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Early American Nature Writers (Info)
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| Producer: | Greenwood | |
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| Description: | This 2007 volume begins with an introductory essay on the history of early American nature writing and then provides signed, alphabetically-arranged entries on 52 writers, including Agassiz, Audubon, Emerson, Thoreau, the Bartrams, Meriwether Lewis, and Charles Wesley Powell.
Purchase was made possible by the Victor Roger Bond '56 Library Endowment Fund. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this e-book either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Biodiversity (Info)
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| Producer: | Elsevier/ScienceDirect | |
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| Description: | This is the electronic version of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Biodiversity made available via ScienceDirect. Advantages to the electronic version include searchability, PDF copies of chapters, and access outside of the library.
Made possible by the Telford Foundation. | |
| Usage Tips: | The search function defaults to search only the currently selected book. There is also a link to search just the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity in the navigation box on the left side of the page.
Use the subject index to pinpoint specific terms. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Biological Invasions (Info)
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| Producer: | University of California Press / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2011 volume contains over 150 signed entries which provide an "overview of the current state of knowledge with respect to the patterns and processes of invasion, the theories associated with invasion, and particular accounts of organisms that have become invasive." You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Climate And Weather (Info)
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| Producer: | Oxford University Press / Oxford Digital Reference Shelf | |
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| Description: | Second edition (2011) contains about 330 signed entries covering "the processes that produce weather, the circulation of the atmosphere that generates the world's climates, classification of climates, important scientific concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists, as well as the history atmospheric sciences, biographies of noteworthy contributors to the field, and significant weather events from extreme tropical cyclones to tornadoes to hurricanes." | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing among the entries or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing Oxford Digital Reference Shelf ebooks, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Earth Sciences (Info)
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| Producer: | Springer | |
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| Description: | This massive collection (21-volume set in printed form) contains over 7,000 signed entries in such fields as beaches and coastal geology, climatology, hydrology and lakes, sedimentology, structural geology and tectonics, and more. The SpringerLink platform also enables searching and provides RSS feeds. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Geology | |
Encyclopedia Of Ecology (Info)
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| Producer: | Elsevier / ScienceDirect | |
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| Description: | 2008 set contains over 500 detailed, signed entries covering "all aspects of ecology, from basic to applied." | |
| Usage Tips: | The first screen displays a broad Subject Areas display, beginning with "Behavioral Ecology."
For additional assistance with browsing, search, and article delivery, see this help page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Environment And Society (Info)
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| Producer: | Sage | |
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| Description: | Edited by Paul Robbins, this 2007 work contains about 1,200 signed entries within an interdisciplinary approach to the interactions between people and the natural environment. You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | Browsing There are three options for browsing through available entries:
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Environmental Ethics And Philosophy (Info)
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| Producer: | Macmillan / Gale Virtual Reference Library | |
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| Description: | Released in 2008, this encyclopedia contains more than 300 signed essays covering "cover concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage." You may view a copy of the table of contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Global Warming And Climate Change (Info)
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| Producer: | Sage | |
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| Description: | Three-volume collection (2008) of "more than 750 articles that explore major topics related to global warming and climate change—ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes." You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | Browsing There are three options for browsing through available entries:
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of Islands (Info)
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| Producer: | University of California Press / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2009 volume contains about 200 signed, alphabetically-arranged entries on "all topics related to islands and the science conducted on them," useful "not only to ecologists and evolutionary biologists, but also to anthropologists, historians, geologists, conservationists,..." You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Anthropology and Archaeology | |
Encyclopedia Of Water Politics And Policy In The United States (Info)
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| Producer: | CQ Press / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2011 volume chronicles the origins of present-day water problems, political conflicts, the impact of legislation and court decisions on the use of water resources, and more. Divided into four thematic sections: Regional Water Politics and Policy; Major Issues; Law and Government; and Places and Projects. | |
| Usage Tips: | You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of The U.S. Government And The Environment: History, Policy, And Politics (Info)
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| Producer: | ABC-Clio / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | Two-volume set (2010) contains about 200 alphabetically-arranged, signed entries on "all aspects of the development of U.S. environmental policy," including events, issues, places, people, politics and policies, laws, court cases, agencies, etc. You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. There is a subject index covering both volumes available at the end of each volume. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Politics -- American Politics | |
Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources (Info)
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| Producer: | Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library | |
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| Description: | Published in 2006, this is a collection of about 175 primary source documents which focus on the environment, including speeches, legislation, articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, etc., with accompanying information on context. You can view the table of contents here. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word.
Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 8 broad categories, beginning with "Roots of Environmental and Ecological Thought." You may open any of these sections by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search/Find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) for missing letters. Example: racis* finds racist or racism. Gale Virtual Reference Library *nbsp; This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the Basic Search or Advanced Search options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Europe: A Continental Overview Of Environmental Issues (Info)
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| Producer: | ABC-Clio | |
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| Description: | Overview of history and issues of environmental issues in Europe. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Forest Conservation Policy; A Reference Handbook (Info)
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| Producer: | ABC-Clio | |
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| Description: | This 2003 guide chronicles the dramatic history, current status, and global influence of U.S. forest policy, also discussing the environmental challenges that have rewritten recent U.S. forest policy and explores future policy directions. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Green Education: An A-to-Z Guide (Info)
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| Producer: | Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library | |
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| Description: | 2011 volume contains about 150 signed entries which provide an interdiciplinary examination of "school and college courses in green education, the structures of educational institutions, the challenges of reducing their ecological footprint, administrative policies, green campus organizations, and student and faculty participation." You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Education | |
Green Ethics And Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide (Info)
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| Producer: | Sage / Sage Reference Library | |
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| Description: | 2011 volume contains 150 alphabetically-arranged signed entries covering "the moral relationship between humans and their natural environment, specifically targeting the contemporary green movement." You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with searching, printing, and e-mailing Sage e-books, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Philosophy | |
Connect to: Internships-USA.com
| Producer: | CEI Internships | |
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| Description: | Information on internships available to Washington and Lee students.
This is part of a larger collection of W&L internship resources. | |
| Usage Tips: | Contains the contents of a dozen or more titles in their internship series, listing over 2,800 organizations which offer internships and/or summer jobs for students. Among these titles are:
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology Women's and Gender Studies Poverty Studies | |
Journal Abbreviations In The Sciences (Info)
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| Producer: | Telford Science Library | |
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| Description: | A collection of resources for deciphering journal title abbreviations, which are very prevalent in the scientific scholarly literature. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Latin America And The Caribbean: A Continental Overview Of Environmental Issues (Info)
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| Producer: | ABC-Clio | |
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| Description: | Overview of history and issues of environmental issues in Latin America. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies | |
Oxford Companion To Global Change (Info)
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| Producer: | Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online | |
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| Description: | Edited by Andrew Goudie, this 2008 "interdisciplinary guide to the range of issues surrounding natural and human-induced changes in the Earth's environment" contains over 200 authoritative, signed entries. | |
| Usage Tips: | The initial screen ("Quick Search") is set up for a search of the complete text of the database. If you want to browse through an alphabetical list of all entries, choose the " Browse this book" option. The results of searches are arranged by relevance, with those articles containing search words in the title or other prominent location. Quick Search To search for various forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) as a wild-card term. Example: pollut* will find pollution, pollutant, polluters, etc. To find articles containing a multi-word phrase, enter the words within quotation marks. Example: "polar bears". To find articles containing all of several words, connect with words with AND. Example: forest* AND cover* Advanced Search This option, located within the blue bar near the top of the screen, enables you to search through this reference source, plus some or all of the other Oxford Reference Online sources in this same broad subject area ("Earth & Environmental Sciences"). | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
PLANTS National Database (Info)
Connect to: PLANTS National Database
| Producer: | USDA | |
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| Description: | The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. PLANTS data is also available to download into Excel. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Environmental Studies | |
| Producer: | Gale | |
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| Description: | This two-volume set (2003) contains over 250 articles on a variety of pollution- related issues, including sources and disposal, legal and political issues, biographies, and ethical concerns. You can see the table of contents here. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word.
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Sage Handbook Of Environmental Change (Info)
Connect to: Sage Handbook of Environmental Change
| Producer: | Sage / Sage Reference Online | |
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| Description: | The link above takes you to Volume I of this two-volume set. Here is Volume II.
This set contains over 40 essays which constitute a "survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change that examines the historic importance and future development of the field." You may preview the table of contents | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Science Reference Sources (Info)
Connect to: Science Reference Sources
| Producer: | Washington and Lee University Libraries | |
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| Description: | A list of science specific dictionaries and encyclopedias. Updated as new resources are acquired. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Short Introduction To Climate Change (Info)
Connect to: Short Introduction to Climate Change
| Producer: | Cambridge University Press / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2012 overview "covers developments in climate science over the past 250 years." You may preview the table of contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You can view the table of contents by clicking on "Contents" within the "TOC" display.
You can open sections of the text by clicking on the arrow preceding that section's label. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Southern United States: An Environmental History (Info)
Connect to: Southern United States: An Environmental History
| Producer: | ABC-Clio | |
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| Description: | This 2006 volume "explores the historical and ecological dimensions of human interaction with the environment throughout Southern history." The arrengement of entries is mostly chronological, plus case studies, primary source documents, and more. You may view a copy of the table of contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word.
Each volume contains an Index which lists entries throughout the entire set. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies History -- United States | |
U.S. Environmental Policy And Politics : A Documentary History (Info)
Connect to: U.S. Environmental Policy and Politics : A Documentary History
| Producer: | Congressional Quarterly Press / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2010 volume collects about 150 important "full and excerpted speeches, writings by conservationists, federal and state legislation, court opinions, testimonies, policy briefs, and more." organized into 11 chronologically-arranged chapters. Includes introductory essays. You may preview the table of contents, near the bottom of this page. | |
| Usage Tips: | You also can view the volume's contents by clicking on "Contents" or "Thematic Table of Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
U.S. Land And National Resources Policy (Info)
Connect to: U.S. Land and National Resources Policy
| Producer: | Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library | |
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| Description: | Subtitled History, Debates, State Data, Maps, Primary Documents, this 2nd edition (2012) outlines politics, policies, legislation, history, and other issues. You may preview the table of contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word.
For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Congressional Research Service Reports (Info)
Connect to: Congressional Research Service Reports
| Producer: | National Library for the Environment | |
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| Description: | Currently posts 1,544 CRS Reports on environmental and related topics. CRS products undergo review for accuracy and objectivity and contain nontechnical information that can be very useful to people interested in environmental policy. CRS does not itself provide these documents to the general public. Reports can be searched by keyword or browsed by topic. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Course Guides For The Sciences (Info)
Connect to: Course Guides for the Sciences
| Producer: | W&L | |
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| Description: | The gateway page to course guides in biology, chemistry, geology, environmental studies, mathematics, physics and engineering, and psychology. Go to specific discipline guides, or use some of the general interest items listed. This is a great replacement for the old Science Library homepage. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology | |
Department Of Energy Information Bridge (Info)
Connect to: Department of Energy Information Bridge
| Producer: | OSTI | |
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| Description: | Provides free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1994 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format. The Information Bridge contains documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. Phrases/Adjacent Terms: Phrases (adjacent terms) can be searched for by using double quotes. For example, a search for "BIG EXPLOSION" will return results that contain the term BIG immediately followed by the term EXPLOSION. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Physics and Engineering Science - General | |
| Producer: | World Bank | |
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| Description: | This is the World Bank's "Environment" site, containing data, region and country reports, etc. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Environmental Information On The Web (Info)
Connect to: Environmental Information on the Web
| Producer: | Population Reference Bureau | |
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| Description: | The PRB has compiled this collection of resources which are "particularly useful for statistical data, reports, and other information on the environment and its links to population and health." (From 2005, but still useful.) | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Environmental News Network (Info)
Connect to: Environmental News Network
| Producer: | ENN | |
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| Description: | The Environmental News Network (ENN) is the largest, most recognized online environmental news source in the world. Since 1993, ENN has provided balanced and non-partisan news, information, and interactive resources for individuals, organizations, and corporations with environmental interests. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
| Producer: | Gottingen State and University Library/University Library Freiberg, Germany | |
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| Description: | From the site: "Geo-Guide is a subject gateway to online information sources on Earth Sciences (including Thematic Maps and Geography) and Mining. The main goal is to index and catalog 'high quality' internet resources in a searchable database."
The Advanced Search, which is the first link in the right-hand sidebar, is the best way to look for specific information. The Browse feature allows you to browse subjects and subheadings, but does not go in depth. Bibliographies and links to virtual libraries are available and comprehensive. | |
| Usage Tips: | Use the shopping cart  to save your results. You do not need to purchase these items, even though the imagery is misleading. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Geology | |
| Producer: | Office of Scientific and Technical Information | |
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| Description: | As one of the leading sites to find grey literature, GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical reports generated by federally funded research projects. Developed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE), NASA, and the EPA. | |
| Tutorial: | http://graylit.osti.gov/help.html | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Physics and Engineering | |
NOAA's Operation Significant Event Imagery (Info)
Connect to: NOAA's Operation Significant Event Imagery
| Producer: | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
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| Description: | High-resolution, detailed imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data available at the NOAA Science Center in Suitland, Maryland. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Native Plant Information Network (Info)
Connect to: Native Plant Information Network
| Producer: | Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center/University of Texas at Austin | |
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| Description: | The NPIN, which is part of the web portal for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, is essentially a searchable database of information on native plants (or wildflowers) of North America. The results list includes photos when available, which makes it easier to identify plants before going to the record. Records include plant characteristics, bloom color, distribution, Latin and common names, and more photos when available. Search by scientific or common name, then limit by state/province, bloom color, characteristics, habit, etc. More than 7,200 species included. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Environmental Studies | |
| Producer: | Nature Publishing Group | |
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| Description: | Online version of the popular magazine Nature. Full text access to archived content from 1997 to present. Search the journal by keyword, or browse by subject or issue. Print version also available in Science Library Periodicals | |
| Usage Tips: | To search, click here | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Science - General | |
Pew Center On Global Climate Change (Info)
Connect to: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
| Producer: | Pew Center on Global Climate Change | |
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| Description: | Multifaceted collection of reports, data, etc. on issues at the international, national, and state/regional levels. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Resources For Environmental Studies (Info)
Connect to: Resources for Environmental Studies
| Producer: | Leyburn Library | |
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| Description: | W&L's Telford Science Library compilation of relevant resources. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
| Producer: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
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| Description: | Online version of the popular magazine Science. Full text access to most content in issues archived to 1995. Search by keyword, browse by volume or subject. Print version also available in the Science Library Periodicals | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Physics and Engineering Science - General | |
Connect to: U.S. Geological Survey
| Producer: | U.S. Department of Interior | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Official website of the U.S. Geological Survey, which includes news, statistics, maps, interactive tools, and some publications developed by USGS. | |
| Usage Tips: | Publications Warehouse search is available. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Geology | |
| Producer: | World Resources Institute | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | An online collection of data regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape the world. Includes data from the world's leading statistical agencies, along with WRI-generated maps and analyses, into a single database for rapid searching and retrieving. To facilitate the comparison of data from different sources, EarthTrends supplements its content with detailed metadata that reports on research methodologies and evaluates the information's reliability. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may have to register to use this site, but registration is free. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Environmental Indicators Gateway (Info)
Connect to: Environmental Indicators Gateway
| Producer: | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | |
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| Description: | Designed to "provide enhanced public access to environmental and health information generated by EPA. Information is presented in the context of 'environmental indicators,' numerical values that provide insights into the status and trends of environmental and public health conditions over time. The Gateway establishes a single catalog of EPA’s indicator work that allows browsing and searching among existing EPA Web sites and indicator materials." | |
| Usage Tips: | The site allows users to browse EPA’s environmental indicator reports by geography, topic area, or time period. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
| Producer: | United Nations Environment Programme | |
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| Description: | Source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps). | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Connect to: Little Green Data Book
| Producer: | World Bank | |
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| Description: | Contains "key indicators of the environment and its relationship to people for more than 200 countries." Derived from the World Bank's World Development Indicators. | |
| Usage Tips: | Conssists mostly of individual country tables. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
National Survey Of Fishing, Hunting, And Wildlife-Associated Recreation (Info)
Connect to: National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation
| Producer: | U.S. Census Bureau | |
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| Description: | Compiled every five years, this collection provides data on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-associated recreation, such as wildlife observation, photography, and feeding. Data include state in which these activities occurred, number of trips taken, duration of trips, and expenditures for food, lodging, transportation, and equipment. Includes both national and state-by-state data. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
Connect to: Organic Agriculture
| Producer: | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service | |
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| Description: | Discussion of research and economic issues includes access to data collections. | |
| Usage Tips: | Note the "Contents" list on the right side of the page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies | |
World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance (Info)
Connect to: World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance
| Producer: | The World Bank | |
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| Description: | The World Development Indicators (WDI)& Global Development Finance (GDF) provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960. Print editions of the World Development Indicators are available online and on paper in Leyburn under the call number: HC59 .W62; the most recent edition is located in the Reference collection on the main level. The WDI is also available on CD-ROM at the Circulation Desk. Leyburn Library has the disks from 2001 and 2003 to 2009. | |
| Usage Tips: | The CD-ROM database may be loaded on any of the machines in the computer labs or on the laptops available at the Circulation Desk. The software will install directly from the CD-ROM. The following instructions are to install the software in the computer labs.
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| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Economics International Trade | |